Year: 2024
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Writer: Joslyn Barnes and Athina Rachel Tsangari
Producers: Rebecca O’Brien, Joslyn Barnes, Michael Weber and Viola Fügen, Athina Rachel Tsangari and Marie-Elena Dyche
Director of Photography: Sean Price-Williams
Cast: Caleb Landry-Jones, Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira and Frank Dillane
Production Company: Sixteen Films, Louverture Films, and The Match Factory, in co-production with Haos Film, Faliro House Productions and Why Not Productions, and in association with Meraki Films and Roag Films
Synopsis
From Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected story about the trauma of modernity and the looming threat of the outsider.
Set over seven hallucinatory days in an idyllic rural Scottish village, the traditional way of life for its agrarian community is suddenly disrupted when a series of unexpected invaders from the outside world bring about irrevocable – and potentially damaging – change.
Combining an ensemble cast lead by Caleb Landry Jones with beautifully textured storytelling, this is an eerie, atmospheric and deeply immersive cinematic experience that asks what happens when people decide what a society should be.
The film is an adaptation of the Booker prize-nominated novel Harvest by Jim Crace, hailed as one of the best books of the 21st century by The Guardian.
More information
Filming locations: Harvest was filmed entirely on location in Oban and the Western Highlands.
Film Festivals: Harvest had its World Premiere at Venice Film Festival on 3 September 2024 and its North American Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on 6 September 2024. Harvest will also screen at the New York Film Festival in September 2024. The film had its Scottish Premiere at the 2025 Glasgow Film Festival in March 2025.
Theatrical release: Harvest will be released in cinemas across the UK & Ireland on Friday 18 July 2025.
Streaming: The film will be available on MUBI on 8 August 2025.
Image credits: Header image credit Jaclyn Martinez