The Harvesters

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.