Mubi has acquired “The Harvest,” directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari (“Attenberg,” “Chevalier”) and starring Caleb Landry Jones, in several key territories ahead of its in-competition premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Mubi will distribute the film in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Benelux and Latin America, with release plans set to be announced in the coming months.
Based on Jim Crace's Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name, Harvest takes place “over seven hallucinatory days” when “a nameless village disappears at an unspecified time and place,” according to its official synopsis. “Village man-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and the confused lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends who are about to face an invasion from the outside world: the shock of modernity.”
Alongside Landry Jones — who starred in Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and won Best Actor at Cannes for his performance in 2021’s “Nitram” — “Harvest” stars Harry Melling (“The Tragedy of Macbeth,” “The Queen’s Gambit”), Rosie McQueen (“Blue Jean,” “The Alienist”), Arinz Kane (“Ear for Eye,” “I’m Your Woman”), Thalissa Teixeira (“Alice & Jack,” “Two Weeks to Live”) and Frank Dillane (“Renegade Nell,” “The Essex Serpent”).
The production team includes Tsangari, Marie-Elena Dyche and Rebecca O'Brien of Sixteen Films, Joslyn Barnes of Louverture Films, and Michael Weber and Viola Fügen of The Match Factory. “Harvest” is a co-production with Haos Film, Faliro House Productions and Why Not Productions and in association with Meraki Films and Roag Films.
The film was funded by BBC Film, Screen Scotland and Ashland Hill Media Finance in the UK; Bayerischer Rundfunk ARTE and Film under Medienstiftung NRW in Germany; EKOME and the Greek Cinema Centre in Greece; Arte France, Arte France Cinéma, Artemis Rising and In Bloom.
Match Factory is responsible for international sales of “Harvest”.
