Harvesters
This assured feature debut effectively hints at a churning savagery beneath the surface, which is every bit as unforgiving as the stark landscape.
The Harvesters
South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to consider this stranger his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love. An official selection of Cannes Un Certain Regard, Etienne Kallos' debut feature film explores teenage angst and family dynamics set against a harsh yet stunning South African backdrop.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
102
Language
Afrikaans
Director
Etienne Kallos
Writer(s)
Etienne Kallos
Cast
Morné Visser,
Juliana Venter,
Brent Vermeulen,
Alex van Dyk,
Erika Wessels
Awards:
Nominee, Golden Camera, Cannes Film Festival
Nominee, Un Certain Regard ~ Avenir Prize, Cannes Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Joshua Speiser, Film Threat
For most Americans, their knowledge about South Africa starts and stops with Nelson Mandela’s fight to end the country’s racist, colonial policies of apartheid which repressed the nation’s indigenous black majority for the benefit of the minority white, Afrikaans population. Writer/director Etienne ...
Played at
Glendale 9.27.19 - 10.03.19
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