The Fifth Season

A mysterious calamity strikes: spring doesn’t come. In a village deep in the Ardennes the cycle of nature is capsized. WINTER – In which Alice, a farmer’s daughter, and Thomas, a reclusive teenager, are in love. And in which the annual bonfire celebrating the end of winter fails to burn. SPRING – In which the bees vanish, the seeds won’t grow and the cows refuse to give milk. And in which the first victim falls. SUMMER – In which a passing flower vendor brings ephemeral joy. And in which insects abound, panic mounts and violence explodes. FALL – In which all civility has dissolved. And in which the angels take flight.

„What would happen if spring didn’t come? After shooting „Khadak” in Mongolia and „Altiplano” in Peru it was a necessity to conclude our trilogy in the place where we live in Belgium. In THE FIFTH SEASON nature takes the upper hand in its protest against man’s arrogance. By doing nothing, giving nothing, by denying the earth fertility, nature sparks the rapid implosion of a whole community. Emerging from the wreckage are a few souls who take flight. Their fate is unknown.”

Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth, film directors