Mubi Acquires Venice Entry ‘Harvest’ Starring Caleb Landry Jones for U.K., Germany

“Harvest,” directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari and starring Caleb Landry Jones, has been acquired by Mubi in several key territories ahead of its premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

Mubi will distribute the film in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Benelux and Latin America. Release plans will be announced in the coming months.

Based on Jim Crace’s Booker prize shortlisted novel of the same name, “Harvest” takes place “over seven hallucinatory days” when a “village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears,” according to its official synopsis. “Townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.”

Along with Landry Jones, “Harvest” stars Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira, and Frank Dillane. Landry Jones is known for his role in Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and won the Cannes best actor award for his performance in 2021’s “Nitram.” Melling, McEwen, Kene, Teixeira, and Dillane have notable credits in films and series such as “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Blue Jean,” “Ear for Eye,” “Alice & Jack,” and “The Essex Serpent.”

Producers of “Harvest” include Tsangari, Marie-Elena Dyche, Rebecca O’Brien for Sixteen Films, Joslyn Barnes for Louverture Films and Michael Weber and Viola Fügen for The Match Factory. The film is a co-production with Haos Film, Faliro House Productions, Why Not Productions, and in association with Meraki Films and Roag Films.

The film was financed by BBC Film, Screen Scotland and Ashland Hill Media Finance in the U.K.; Bayerischer Rundfunk ARTE and Film under Medienstiftung NRW in Germany; the National Centre of Audiovisual Media and Communication EKOME and the Greek Film Centre in Greece; Arte France and Arte France Cinéma, the Artemis Rising Foundation, and In Bloom.

The Match Factory is handling international sales for “Harvest.”

Source: Variety, Deadline