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Urchin

Horizons / Urchin / United Kingdom 2025

Urchin Urchin

Screenings

Saturday 5/7 / 10:00
Pupp
2P1
Friday 11/7 / 19:00
Pupp
8P6

Synopsis

Harris Dickinson, known for portraying the naive Carl in Ruben Östlund’s 2022 film Triangle of Sadness, returned to Cannes this year in a new role: as a debut director. His freshman film Urchin follows the young Mike as he repeatedly tries to escape the clutches of his drug addiction. This raw portrait of darkness and hope – which dims with each setback but is never extinguished – reflects Dickinson’s personal experience working as a volunteer at a community center. Frank Dillane fleshes out Mike as a fragile soul full of contradictions in a performance that earned him the Best Actor award in the Un Certain Regard competition.

Petra Vočadlová

About the film

99 min / Color, DCP

Director Harris Dickinson / Screenplay Harris Dickinson / Dir. of Photography Josée Deshaies / Music Alan Myson / Editor Rafael Torres Calderón / Art Director Anna Rhodes / Producer Archie Pearch / Production Devisio Pictures / Coproduction Somesuch / Cast Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Amr Waked, Karyna Khymchuk, Shonagh Marie, Harris Dickinson / Sales Charades

About the director

Harris Dickinson

Harris Dickinson. Filmography: Who Cares (2013, short), Surface (2014, short), Drop (2015, short), 2003 (2021, short), Urchin (2025).

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38 Boulevard Raspail, 75007, Paris
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Phone: +33 629 874 504
E-mail: [email protected]

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