“Harvest,” directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari (“Attenberg,” “Chevalier”) and starring Caleb Landry Jones, has been acquired by Mubi in a number of key territories forward of its premiere in competitors at Venice Film Festival.
Mubi will distribute the movie within the U.Ok., Eire, Germany, Austria, Benelux and Latin America with launch plans to be introduced within the coming months.
Based mostly on Jim Crace’s Booker prize shortlisted novel of the identical title, “Harvest” takes place “over seven hallucinatory days” when a “village with no title, in an undefined time and place, disappears,” in keeping with its official synopsis. “Townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood associates about to face an invasion from the surface world: the trauma of modernity.”
Together with Landry Jones — who broke out in Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Exterior Ebbing, Missouri” and gained the Cannes greatest actor award for his efficiency in 2021’s “Nitram” — “Harvest” stars Harry Melling (“The Tragedy of Macbeth,” “The Queen’s Gambit”), Rosy McEwen (“Blue Jean,” “The Alienist”), Arinzé Kene (“Ear for Eye,” “I’m Your Girl”), Thalissa Teixeira (“Alice & Jack,” “Two Weeks to Stay”) and Frank Dillane (“Renegade Nell,” “The Essex Serpent”).
Producers embrace Tsangari, Marie-Elena Dyche, Rebecca O’Brien for Sixteen Movies, Joslyn Barnes for Louverture Movies and Michael Weber and Viola Fügen for The Match Manufacturing facility. “Harvest” is a co-production with Haos Movie and Faliro Home Productions, Why Not Productions and in affiliation with Meraki Movies and Roag Movies.
The movie was financed by BBC Movie, Display Scotland and Ashland Hill Media Finance within the U.Ok.; Bayerischer Rundfunk ARTE and Movie underneath Medienstiftung NRW in Germany; the Nationwide Centre of Audiovisual Media and Communication EKOME and the Greek Movie Centre in Greece; Arte France and Arte France Cinéma, the Artemis Rising Basis and In Bloom.
The Match Manufacturing facility is dealing with worldwide gross sales on “Harvest.”
