The Belgian film Tot Altijd won the audience award at the The End film festival in Amsterdam on Sunday evening. The film premiered there on Saturday. The Amsterdam festival shows film prints that have euthanasia and other forms of self-chosen end of life as their central theme. The film Tot Altijd is based on the true story of Mario Verstraete, a young politician with the nervous disease MS, who fought for Belgian euthanasia legislation, which he was the first to make use of. The film narrowly defeated De Goede Dood by Wannie de Wijn, the opening film of the festival.

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