THE HARVESTERS

feature film, drama
written & directed by Etienne Kallos
coproduced with Cinema Defacto / France and Heretic / Greece and Spier Film / RPA
production year: 2018

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 makes this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.

International premiere - Un certain regard - Cannnes, 2018

International premiere

Un certain regard Cannnes, 2018

BRENT VERMEULEN ALEX VAN DYK JULIANA VENTER MORNE VISSER WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ETIENNE KALLOS PRODUCED BY SOPHIE ERBS PRODUCERS TOM DERCOURT, THEMBISA COCHRANE, MICHAEL AURET, MARIUSZ WŁODARSKI, KONSTANTINOS KONTOVRAKIS, GIORGOS KARNAVAS, ETIENNE KALLOS ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS JAMAL ZEINAL ZADE, DAN WECHSLER EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS LWAZI MANZI, ANNETTE FAUSBØLL, JULIEN FAVRE, JEAN-ALEXANDRE LUCIANI DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY MICHAŁ ENGLERT EDITOR MURIELBRETON MUSIC EVGUENI I SACHA GALPERINE SOUND LEANDROS NTOUNIS, THOMAS ROBERT, JEAN-GUY VERAN