Harvest

(18) 2 hours 14 minutes
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Cast: Harry Melling, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosy McEwen, Frank Dillane, Arinzé Kene
Read the BBFC report here

During the Middle Ages, an idyllic Scottish village experiences a period of great uncertainty. When a barn burns down, the residents cannot accept that it was one of their own, and scapegoat three outsiders as the culprits.

But the arrival of another outsider with claims to the village’s land threatens the community’s traditional way of life. Over seven hallucinatory days, life in the town is disrupted by seismic economic turmoil that will lead to irrevocable and potentially damaging change.

Adapted from the Booker-nominated novel by Jim Crace, this period drama was filmed in Argyll. Steeped in folk horror, it is an eerie, atmospheric, and textured story about superstition, fear of the outsider, and what happens when people decide what a society should be.

“this is pungent filmmaking which creates a world steeped in superstition, ritual and folk-magic” Screen International

“transfixes as a whole-sackcloth immersion into another time and place” Variety

“a rewarding experience” RadioTimes

18: sexualised violence