The Harvesters

Die Stropers

59th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Free State region in South Africa is an isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture – the culture of the ancestors of the Dutch colonizers. Janno is an introvert teenager who grows up in this so-called “bible belt,” in a conservative farming territory. When his fiercely religious mother brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to “save,” she asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. A modern, ghostly parable about the youth that lives in the shadow of Apartheid, struggling with the obsession with masculinity and the question of patrimonial heritage.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Etienne Kallos
Script: Etienne Kallos
Cinematography: Michal Englert
Editing: Muriel Breton
Sound: Leandros Ntounis, Thomas Robert, Jean-Guy Veran
Music: Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
Actors: Brent Vermeulen, Alex van Dyk, Juliana Venter, Morne Visser
Production: Cinema Defacto, Spier Films, Heretic, Lava Films
Producers: Giorgos Karnavas, Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Sophie Erbs,Τom Dercourt, Thembisa Cochrane, Michael Auret, Mariusz Wlodarski
Co-production: ERT SA
Art Direction: Barri Parvess
Costumes: Chantelle Burger
Executive producer: Lwazi Manzi, Annette Fausbøll, Julien Favre, Jean-Alexandre Luciani
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: South Africa, Greece, France, Poland
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 106΄
Contact: Pyramide International, sales@pyramidefilms.com

Etienne Kallos

Etienne Kallos is a Greek-South African Director. His early works, documentaries, were screened at the Berlinale. His first short, Doorman, was presented at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival (Cinéfondation section) and at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Etienne’s thesis film, Firstborn, won the Golden Lion Award for Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival in 2009. The Harvesters is his first feature.

Filmography

2006 No Exit (short)
2006 Doorman (short)
2009 Eersgeborene | Firstborn (short)
2018 Die Stropers | The Harvesters