By the end of WWI, Ypres and its surroundings were completely wiped off the map. Thanks to German reparations money, Ypres would rise from its dust and rubble as a symbol of rebirth amidst the numerous graveyards replete with fallen soldiers.
The Last Post has resounded every evening ever since 1928, and Ypres became a centre to commemorate the First World War, the fallen soldiers, reflect about war and peace.
At the same time, Ypres is welcoming more tourists year after year, engaging a whole tourist industry, which does rise the question if Ypres itself not become the victim of its own success? Has it not morphed into some kind of ‘Remembrance Disneyland’, trampled on and groped by the roving feet and hands of the droves of remembrance tourists?
The film wanders around the thin line between serene commemoration and the remembrance industrialisation. We Will Remember Them is a poetic interpretation of the everyday dynamics generated by Great War remembrance in and around Ypres.