The "Harvest" by Athina Rachel Tsangari had its Greek premiere at the Onassis Stegi
From September 25 in cinemas by Cinobo and Faliro House
In her most ambitious film to date, Athina Rachel Tsangari invites us into a universe of staggering psychedelic visions of euphoria and fertility, at the very moment it is threatened by the emphatically visible hand of capitalism. The end of an era is captured on 16mm and brought to life through a striking international cast that pours its soul into portraying a social utopia destined, one day, to return.
Over the course of seven hallucinatory days, an anonymous village, in an undefined time and place, vanishes. In Tsangari’s tragicomic take on the classic western, Walter Thirsk – once bourgeois, now a farmer – and Lord Charles Kent, the local landowner, are childhood friends preparing to confront an invasion from the outside world: the scourge of modernity.
A powerful, harsh, beautiful story – Variety
Brilliantly surreal – The Telegraph
Gripping – Indiewire
Enchanting – Sight & Sound
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s films have been described by critics as “eccentric tragedies that defy cinematic genres.” Her second feature, Attenberg, won the Coppa Volpi Award at the Venice Film Festival. Chevalier received Best Film at BFI London and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Both films were Greece’s official Oscar submissions. She was lead director and executive producer on the BBC2/HBO Max series Trigonometry (Berlinale Series 2020). Through her company Haos Film, she has produced works by Yorgos Lanthimos and Georgis Grigorakis, and she also co-produced and appeared in Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight. Tsangari has taught film at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Le Fresnoy in France, and served as Artistic Director of the Oxbelly Screenwriting and Directing Lab.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Cast: Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling, Rosie McEwen
Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, USA
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Year: 2024
Duration: 134'