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Asking important questions about life, death and dysfunction, HARVEST is a work of tremendous candour and compassion. As three generations come together around Siv (Loggia), the dynamic patriarch and WW2 veteran who is dying of cancer, student Josh (Carpenter) is initially reluctant to give up his last college summer. However, as tensions mount and years of rivalries and resentments come to a head, he finds himself taking on the role of peacemaker, holding the family together and learning about himself in the process. Love, grief and the inevitability of death are explored with breathtaking realism in this poignant portrait of how an ordinary family learns to deal with an extraordinary loss. Festival audiences will remember director Meyers?s previous film APPROACHING UNION SQUARE which screened in 2007.