Harvest

This gripping, folk horror-inflected drama from director Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg) is a striking portrait of land, power, and displacement — themes that resonate deeply in today’s ecological crisis.

Synopsis

A gripping, timely drama about a world in upheaval.

Adapted from Jim Crace’s acclaimed novel, HARVEST plunges us into a remote agrarian village, where a fragile community faces invasion—not just by outsiders, but by the relentless forces of modernity. Over seven hallucinatory days, their way of life unravels as a map-maker, transient strangers, and a landowner threaten to seize the commons.

Featuring an outstanding cast including:

Caleb Landry Jones (Nitram, Get Out)
Harry Melling (The Pale Blue Eye, The Tragedy of Macbeth)
Rosy McEwen (Blue Jean)

Filmed entirely in Oban, Argyll, and the Western Highlands, this Scottish-made drama is a powerful reflection on land, power, and environmental upheaval.

Distributor: MUBI

Screening Details

LandxSea Monthly: 3 April 2025
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Director’s Statement:

"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.”