The Fifth Season
feature-length fiction (2012)
Awards
Venice 2012 - Main Competition - 'Leone d'Oro', winner Young Cinema Award - 'Premio Arca Cinema Giovani'
Toronto 2012 - Official selection
Gent 2012 - Competition
Valladolid 2012 - Special Jury Award, FIPRESCI, Young Jury Award
Description
International coproduction of a feature film between Belgium, The Netherlands and France.
THE FIFT SEASON - also known as 'La Cinquième Saison' - is the third and final part of a trilogy by Brosens and Woodworth - with KHADAK (2006) and ALTIPLANO (2009).
THE FIFTH SEASON tells the haunting tale of a mysterious calamity: the absence of spring after a long winter.
The cycle of nature is overturned and Alice and Thomas struggle to make sense of the world that is now collapsing around them.