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A DEA agent and a local sheriff have to wrestle with their consciences as they start raids on local farmers, who have started growing marijuana simply to keep their farms operational. Story focuses on a young man, who accidentally discovers that his straight-laced parents are involved in the marijuana cultivation.
Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their patriarch. With endearing moments of humor and uplifting spirit, Harvest is a portrait of a family awkwardly yet delicately hanging on to what was, what now is, and to one another.
Follows the villager's reaction to three newcomers, who become scapegoats in a time of economic turmoil.
Alex Winckler Drama Short Film
Drama / Romance - Jacob Hansen's future looked bright. He had a beautiful fiancée, Maddy, and a family farm he was next in line to inherit--but the day before his wedding, he skipped town. Now, over 20 years later, Jacob has returned to find his brother, Dan, married to Maddy and running the farm. To keep the family together, the Hansens must overcome their past and deal with the complex feelings they have harbored for decades.
Inspired by the reggae band Psycho Key, a Caribbean weed farmer journeys beyond his home in the St. Lucia mountains in search of spiritual wisdom.
"Harvest" follows five family wineries, an amateur home winemaker and a rare all-female Mexican picking crew through the Sonoma County wine harvest of 2011. This is the story behind the wine you drink.
At night, the moon feeds.
Joe Gibbons prepares to go back to the local cattle mart for the first time since his near fatal heart attack. But, it's no ordinary day and Joe is soon confronted with the harsh truth of his future.
A one-year, four continent odyssey by some of the world’s greatest skiers and snowboarders. Harvest makes a major statement on the contemporary spirit of the sport and the relentless progression of big mountain riding. Helicopters, avalanches, trams, big mountains, first descents, whales and car crashes. Shot on location in Wyoming, Europe, Alaska, and Greenland. A segment in Harvest was picked to tour with the Banff Film Festival’s Best of Festival Film Tour.
A beautifully photographed record of the yearly cycle of planting and growth which culminates in bountiful harvests across the farmlands of the United States. Panoramic in its treatment, the film shows something of the diversity of farming and harvesting techniques, rapid transport to the distant consumer, university research to increase crop yields and industrial ingenuity in devising improved machinery to lighten the farmer's task and increase the productivity of the land.
A raw and visceral exploration of the director's journey harvesting eggs in the midst of uncertainty around motherhood.
Jenni has an ordinary life of simple patterns revolving around family and work. Her daily routine is seemingly unremarkable yet is of great interest to someone she doesn’t know—but who knows everything about her. Harvest is a thrilling and inventive depiction of the hidden value in mundane routines.
An abnormal phenomenon occurs in an olive grove as one of the trees suddenly shakes its branches rapidly, thereby evoking an uprising. As the natural protest rises, a police squad rallies through the landscape and seeks to suppress the rebellion. This film is inspired by the ancient labour of olive harvest, which encompasses both cultivation and aggression at the same time.
An ordinary evening in Tucson, when Kevin and his three friends are having a conversation waiting in line to get into a club. He then encounters a woman at the bar, but this is not just another boy meets girl tale.
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
In The Harvest, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his hometown of Leland, Mississippi. After the 1954 Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, little more than token efforts were made to desegregate Southern schools. That changed dramatically on October 29, 1969, when the high court ordered that Mississippi schools to fully — and immediately — desegregate. As a result, a group of children, including six-year-old Blackmon, became part of the first class of Black and white children who would attend all 12 grades together in Leland.
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 make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.
The teacher Drew Granger accepts a temporary substitute job in his old hometown of Chestnut Hollow, Texas, where he meets Aiden, the proverbial new kid at school, desperate for a caring friend. While he would rather have taken a job anywhere else, Drew reconsiders Chestnut Hollow when he meets Lainie Abbott, the new manager of his parents’ massive apple orchard and cider mill business, and more importantly, Aiden’s mom.
The newly married Elizabeth arrives with her new husband, the scientist Henry, at a magnificent house. He tells her that she can do there anything she pleases, except to enter a certain closed room.