SYNOPSIS

Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. In Tsangari’s tragicomic take on a Western, townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.

DIRECTOR’S
BIOGRAPHY

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s films have been hailed as “genre-bending screwball tragedies”. She returns to Venice fourteen years after her sophomore film ATTENBERG won the Coppa Volpi. CHEVALIER won Best Film at BFI-London, was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Both films were Greece’s official submissions at the Oscars. Lead director/EP on the BBC2/HBO Max series TRIGONOMETRY (Berlinale Series 2020). Under her banner HAOS FILM, she produced films for Yorgos Lanthimos and Georgis Grigorakis, and was co-producer and actor on Richard Linklater’s BEFORE MIDNIGHT. She has taught cinema at Harvard, UT Austin and Le Fresnoy in France and was the Artistic Director of the Oxbelly Screenwriting and Directing Labs.

Selected director's filmography:

2024 Harvest
2020 Trigonometry (TV Series)
2015 Chevalier
2012 The Capsule
2010 Attenberg
2001 The Slow Business of Going

COMMENTS OF
THE DIRECTOR

"With this film, an adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel Harvest, we had the chance to examine the moment when it all began for us, 21st century heirs to a universal story of land loss. To me, Harvest is a film about reckoning. What have we done? Where do we go from here? How can we salvage our soil, the self within the commons? Harvest takes place in a threshold realm, tracing the first ruptures of the industrial “revolution”. And revolution it hasn’t been.

An agrarian community is disrupted by three breeds of outsiders: the map-maker, the people on the move, and the company man--all archetypes of shattering change. The future is not part of the story­– it will happen off screen, in a world we are not meant to see. There are no heroes. Only imperfect, ordinary folks. I imagined it as a daguerreotype, or its modern equivalent, a polaroid being slowly exposed to twilight.” 

MAIN
CAST BIOGRAPHY

Caleb Landry Jones

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Named one of “Ten Actors to Watch” by both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, Caleb Landry Jones recently wrapped production on Luc Besson’s DRACULA set to release in 2025. Landry Jones received critical acclaim for his work in THE OUTPOST directed by Rod Lurie and co-starring Scott Eastwood and Orlando Bloom. His film NITRAM premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Landry Jones won the Best Actor award for his performance as “Nitram.” He was also recently seen starring in Luc Besson’s DOGMAN. In 2021, he was seen in Apple’s FINCH opposite Tom Hanks and directed by Miguel Sapochnik and THE FORGIVEN with Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain, directed by John Michael McDonagh.  In 2019, Landry Jones was a recipient of both the SAG award and Critics Choice Award for Best Ensemble for his work in Martin McDonagh’s Oscar winning THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI opposite Fran McDormand and Sam Rockwell.  In addition, he co-starred in Jordan Peele’s Oscar winning GET OUT for Blumhouse Pictures, as well as Doug Liman's AMERICAN MADE opposite Tom Cruise and Sean Baker’s Oscar nominated THE FLORIDA PROJECT opposite Willem Dafoe. Additional credits include Jim Jarmush’s THE DEAD DON’T DIE and Lone Sherfig’s THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS, which opened the 2019 Berlin Film Festival; as well as FRIDAY’S CHILD directed by A.J. Edwards, which was a selection at the 2018 SXSW Film festival;  ANTIVIRAL which premiered at the Cannes festival, and had its North American premiere at Toronto and was released by IFC Films . He co-starred in Joshua and Benny Safdie's HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT which was awarded the Tokyo Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival after premiering in Venice and screening at Toronto and New York.  He also co-starred in QUEEN AND COUNTRY for director John Boorman which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was featured in John Slattery's directorial debut, GOD'S POCKET with Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Other films include Gerardo Naranjo’s English language debut, VIENA AND THE FANTONES,  STONEWALL, WAR ON EVERYONE, CONTRABAND,  BYZANTIUM.

Harry Melling

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Harry can currently be seen as the co-lead in The Pale Blue Eye opposite Christian Bale for Netflix, for his performance has received critical acclaim. He can also currently be seen in a lead role in Shoshana for Michael Winterbottom. Next up he will be seen in a leading role in Athina Rachel Tsagari’s feature Harvest opposite Caleb Landry Jones; and a new leading role in The Mirror and The Light, the BBC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s bestselling novel, opposite Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis. He will soon start filming the lead in Pillion opposite Alexander Skarsgard, the directorial feature debut for Harry Lighton. He was recently seen in The Tragedy of Macbeth opposite Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, directed by Joel Coen, Please Baby Please opposite Andrea Riseborough, and the hit Netflix series The Queens Gambit directed by Scott Frank (the most successful scripted drama on Netflix). He starred in the hit action thriller The Old Guard opposite Charlize Theron and in Antonio Campsos’ thriller The Devil All the Time opposite Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland. Harry played a major role in the Coen Brother’s multi-award winning feature The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and has an extensive theatre CV having played leads at the National, Old Vic and West End. Harry can currently be seen as the co-lead in The Pale Blue Eye opposite Christian Bale for Netflix, for his performance has received critical acclaim. He can also currently be seen in a lead role in Shoshana for Michael Winterbottom. Next up he will be seen in a leading role in Athina Rachel Tsagari’s feature Harvest opposite Caleb Landry Jones; and a new leading role in The Mirror and The Light, the BBC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s bestselling novel, opposite Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis. He will soon start filming the lead in Pillion opposite Alexander Skarsgard, the directorial feature debut for Harry Lighton. He was recently seen in The Tragedy of Macbeth opposite Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, directed by Joel Coen, Please Baby Please opposite Andrea Riseborough, and the hit Netflix series The Queens Gambit directed by Scott Frank (the most successful scripted drama on Netflix). He starred in the hit action thriller The Old Guard opposite Charlize Theron and in Antonio Campsos’ thriller The Devil All the Time opposite Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland. Harry played a major role in the Coen Brother’s multi-award winning feature The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and has an extensive theatre CV having played leads at the National, Old Vic and West End.

Rosy McEwen

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BIFA Award winning actor, Rosy McEwen most recently starred as the titular role in BLUE JEAN, directed by Georgia Oakley in her directorial debut. Following a successful festival circuit, Rosy received the much-coveted award for Best Lead Performance at the 2022 BIFA Awards, where her fellow nominees included Bill Nighy and Florence Pugh.  

Upcoming, she has three features due for release - she will star alongside Dev Patel in Bryn Chainey’s RABBIT TRAP; she will lead in the BBC Films feature HARVEST opposite Caleb Landry Jones and she will play alongside Julia Garner in the Paramount feature APARTMENT 7A, which will be a prequel to the 1968 horror, ROSEMARY’S BABY. In addition, Rosy was recently announced to star in MISSION opposite George Mackay. 

In 2022, Rosy played Desdemona in the critically acclaimed production of OTHELLO at The National Theatre, and was recognised as one of the Screen International Stars of Tomorrow in the same year.  

In 2020, she was named as one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch which came off the back of her breakout performance in TNT’s THE ALIENIST: THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS and following this, she starred opposite Eddie Marsan in the Euro indie VESPER.

Arinzé Kene

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ARINZÉ KENE will soon be seen in the feature film Harvest, directed by Athina Tsangari. He can be seen as the leading role of ‘Death’ in Daina O. Pusic's Tuesday for A24 opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus and also in the feature film Lee opposite Kate Winslet. Prior to this he performed his one-man show Misty at The Shed, NYC to rave reviews, following hugely successful London performances at both Trafalgar Studios and the Bush Theatre which garnered nominations for two Olivier awards. Prior to this, he originated the leading role of ‘Bob Marley’ in Get Up, Stand Up! in the West End, for which he was nominated for an Olivier award. Other recent credits include the feature film Love Again, I’m Your Woman for Amazon, Ear For Eye for the BBC, and The Informer, also for the BBC.

Thalissa Teixeira

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Thalissa's most recent theatre work includes starring in Taming of the Shrew (the Globe) as Katharina, Julius Caesar (RSC) as Brutus, Dr Semmelweis (Bristol Old Vic), Women Beware Women, Othello, The Broken Heart, The Changeling (Shakespeare’s Globe), Blood Wedding (Young Vic), Yerma (Young Vic, Park Avenue Armoury), Julie (National Theatre), The Night Watch (Manchester Royal Exchange) and Electra (Old Vic). Thalissa’s television work includes starring in Sid Gentle and AMC's Ragdoll, ITV's Too Close, Sky's Two Weeks To Live, Anne Bolyen (CH 4) and the BBC's Trigonometry. Most recent projects include the short film We Met Before, which Thalissa wrote and directed, and feature film Harvest, directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari. Thalissa trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Frank Dillane

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FRANK DILLANE started acting at a young age appearing in HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE and PAPADOPOLOUS & SONS before leaving school. He then attended RADA and, upon graduation, immediately booked the role of "Coffin" in Ron Howard's IN THE HEART OF THE SEA for Warner Brothers and then landed the lead role in FEAR THE WALKING DEAD which became the biggest series premiere in cable history. Since then, he has cemented himself as one of the UK's best and most versatile young actors with starring roles in Apple's THE ESSEX SERPENT opposite Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston, opposite Beanie Feldstein in HOW TO BUILD A GIRL and in the most recent season of THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE to name a few. He can currently be seen in Sally Wainwright’s THE BALLAD OF RENEGADE NELL for Disney+. Upcoming projects are the limited series JOAN for ITV opposite Sophie Turner and in Athina Tsangari’s HARVEST opposite Caleb Landry Jones for Sixteen Films. He is currently filming the lead role in Harris Dickinson's directorial debut, GENERA, for BBC Films.

MAIN
CAST

Caleb Landry Jones
as Walter Thirsk

Harry Melling
as Charles Kent

Rosy McEwen
as Kitty Gosse

Arinzé Kene
as Quill

Thalissa Teixeira
as Mistress Beldam

Frank Dillane
as Edmund Jordan

MAIN
CREW

Screenwriters: Joslyn Barnes, Athina Rachel Tsangari
Based on the novel Harvest by Jim Crace
Director of Photography: Sean Price-Williams
Production Designer: Nathan Parker
Costume Designer: Kirsty Halliday
Hair and Makeup Designer: Anita Brolly
Casting: Shaheen Baig
Choreographer: Holly Blakey
Film Editors: Matt Johnson, Nico Leunen
Sound Designer: Nicolas Becker
Production Sound Mixer: David Bowtle-McMillan A.M.P.S. C.A.S.
Re-Recording Mixer: Ian Tapp C.A.S.
Supervising Dialogue Editor: Linda Forsen
Original Music: Nicolas Becker, Ian Hassett, Caleb Landry Jones, Lexx
Producers: Rebecca O’Brien, Joslyn Barnes, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Marie-Elena Dyche

TECHNICAL
DETAILS

Original title: Harvest
International title: Harvest
Duration: 133'
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Format: DCP
Sound: 5.1
Year: 2024
Original language: English
Countries of production: United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, United States
Production Company: Harvest Film Limited
Co-production Companies: Sixteen Films Ltd, The Match Factory, Haos Film, Louverture Films and Why Not Productions
In association with: Meraki Films and Roag Films
With the support of: Ashland Hill Media Finance, BBC Film, Screen Scotland and Electric Shadow in the UK; Bayerischer Rundfunk ARTE and Film under Medienstiftung NRW in Germany; the National Centre of Audiovisual Media and Communication EKOME and the Greek Film Centre in Greece; Arte France and Arte France Cinéma, the Artemis Rising Foundation and In Bloom.

INTERNATIONAL
PRESS