Close to the Sun

Where the Poppies Blow A century symbolized by the blooming of poppies, from World War I to the drones of "modern warfare"...

Notes from the New World A contemporary retelling of Dostoevsky's 'Notes from the Underground', unfolding in Los Angeles.

Sape In 1916, Ernest, an 18-year-old sapper soldier, has to dig a tunnel ten meters underground to place dynamite in a strategic position. But the Germans are digging too, and they are so close that you can hear their voices...

Vrede? Joepie! In a shelter, a man waits for the war to end. Outside, silence descends and the war seems to be coming to an end. He opens the hatch and glances outside. A few steps away from him, another hatch opens...

A Crow to Pluck Marcel, an old dabbler scarecrow, sees his homely life turned upside down by the arrival of the hardworking scarecrow Léon, a new neighbour unwilling to laze about...

Vrede One of the most imaginative projects to mark the centenary of the First World War is 12 Minutes About Peace, a collection of 12 one-minute animated shorts on the theme of peace. They were made by bothemerging as well as established talents in Flemish animation.

The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Otto A young soldier's fear during an artillery attack becomes an unbearable wait followed by a swift, horrific end.

Hexed Madera, a lonesome woman, lives a quiet existence in a small apartment. But nothing is as simple as it seems, and her problems are physically materialized in the form of a cube that appears in her world.

Corruption The corpse of a young beautiful woman, the owner of a well-furnished home, was discovered in the apartment. Inspector Gurov rejects the robbery version: nothing was touched in the apartment. Four are suspected: the husband of the murdered woman, her friend, a neighbor on the landing and an elevator operator...