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The Harvesters

Play trailer 1:38 Poster for The Harvesters Released Sep 13, 2019 1h 46m Drama LGBTQ+ Play Trailer Watchlist
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A young man competes for his mother's love when she welcomes a hardened street orphan into their home in South Africa.

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Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times This darkly powerful psychodrama finds fear and tension in its hermetic world of rural farming and religious immersion amid the almost contradictory beauty of its sprawling South African locale. Sep 26, 2019 Full Review Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter A slow-burning and increasingly suffocating variation on the myth of Cain and Abel, The Harvesters (Die Stropers) is the impressive feature debut from Greek-South African filmmaker Etienne Kallos. May 16, 2018 Full Review Guy Lodge Variety This sternly moving, vividly shot rural drama draws quasi-Biblical resonance from its tale of teenage foster brothers locked in a familial and cultural power struggle on a remote farmstead. May 15, 2018 Full Review Emily Wheeler Film Inquiry It's a film with uncomfortable weight, one that slowly but surely crushes you in the way any society presses on those who don't fit in. Sep 13, 2019 Full Review Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com "The Harvesters" is an unsettling feature at times, but also intensely atmospheric. Rated: B Sep 12, 2019 Full Review Joshua Speiser Film Threat One of the best measures of a film is its resonance, its ability to stick with you long after you have left the theater or turned off your screen. By that measure, The Harvesters is a resounding success. Rated: 8/10 Apr 22, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member So, for your very first film as director, you decide to pick a couple of kids who'd never been in a film before as your leads, and you require those kids, both about fifteen, to play gay in a region of South Africa that's almost a time warp to the days of Apartheid, an area of stultifying religious bigots who are also racists. That's chutzpah or insanity, perhaps a bit of both. Worked out pretty well actually; the film was selected to screen at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard category, and one of the kids, Alex van Dyk, age 15, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the South African equivalent of the Oscars. Not too, shabby, that. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A young man competes for his mother's love when she welcomes a hardened street orphan into their home in South Africa.
Director
Etienne Kallos
Producer
Michael Auret, Thembisa Cochrane, Tom Dercourt, Sophie Erbs, Etienne Kallos, Giorgos Karnavas, Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Mariusz Włodarski
Screenwriter
Etienne Kallos
Distributor
Altered Innocence
Production Co
Lava Films, Cinema Defacto, Heretic, Spier Films, Bord Cadre Films
Genre
Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language
Afrikaans
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 13, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 6, 2019
Runtime
1h 46m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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