Urchin
Harris Dickinson
"Voyage, voyage" - Mike leads a vagrant life on the streets, forced to be a survival artist. Caught between procurement, addiction, anger, violence and attempts to find a job, he loses himself in an endless, self-destructive downward spiral. Following a robbery and time in prison, he wants to get his life back on track. New friends, a steady job; his goal seems in reach. But in the rollercoaster of his everyday life, he keeps crossing lines and feels his demons pulling him down into the abyss. Can he escape the vices of his past?
The directing debut of critically acclaimed actor Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness, Babygirl) positively surprised the Cannes audiences and won Frank Dillane the Best Actor award.
29 April 2026
19:30 h, Elysee 1 im Festivalzentrum
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| Direction | Harris Dickinson |
| Country | UK, USA |
| Production year | 2025 |
| Duration | 100 min |
| Language | English |
| Language Version | OV with English Subs |
| Genre | Drama |
| Production | Archie Pearch, Scott O'Donnell, Eva Yates, Phoebe McNally, Elizabeth Rufai |
| Production company | Devisio |
| Distribution | Charades |
| Cast | Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Karyna Khymchuk, Shonagh Marie |
| Director of Photography | Josée Deshaies |
| Script | Harris Dickinson |
| Montage | Rafael Torres Calderón |
| Sound | Steve Single |
| Music | Alan Myson |
| Sound Design | Michael Ling |
| Scenography | Anna Rhodes, Abbie Kornstein |
CANNES 2025: BEST ACTOR, FIPRESCI AWARD
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About the director
Harris Dickinson is a British actor, model and filmmaker.
Press reviews
"Harris Dickinson makes a terrifically impressive debut here as a writer-director with this smart and compassionate picture about homelessness. It is engaging, sympathetically acted and layered with genuinely funny moments, mysterious and hallucinatory set-pieces, and challenges the notion of the haves who fear the contagious risk of coming into contact with the have-nots." (Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian)
"The fragmented storytelling often positions us to feel empathy, frustration, and irritability in ways that make Urchin memorable. Dickinson pairs this approach with fascinating imagery and sequences that often feel like they belong in an entirely separate film. [...] Frank Dillane takes it a step further by taking us on a roller-coaster of emotions as his character bounces in and out of instability and brief moments of happiness. If nothing else, his performance alone is worth struggling through one’s own consciousness about how we judge addiction and homelessness." (Patrice Witherspoon for ScreenRant)
International Feature Film Program
