URCHIN Trailer: Harris Dickinson’s Cannes-Winning Directorial Debut Introduces a New Star in Frank Dillane

While people may recognize him more for his acting, Harris Dickinson blew audiences and critics’ minds at this year’s Cannes Film Festival when he premiered his feature directorial debut, Urchin. Written and directed by Dickinson, the film stars Frank Dillane (most recently seen in the MUBI film Harvest) as a young homeless man in London trying to turn his life around, while dealing with addiction and other self-destructive tendencies. Dillane’s revelatory performance won him the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actor at Cannes. It also stars Megan Northam, Amr Waked, Karyna Khymchuk, Shonagh Marie, and Dickinson himself.

Dickinson and Dillane recently brought the film to the Telluride Film Festival as an Oscar hopeful. Following its Cannes premiere, it was picked up by new North American distributor 1-2 Special, founded by Sideshow executive and Cinetic veteran Jason Hellerstein. The U.S. trailer and poster for Urchin have now arrived, which is set to open in NY & LA on October 10, followed by a nationwide rollout on October 10.

Here’s the official synopsis:

On the streets of London, Mike is hustling to get by. Roadside evangelizers won’t let him sleep in peace, his slippery friend won’t pay up the money he stole, and before long, he finds himself in trouble with the law. As he struggles to reintegrate into society, shuffling between gigs as a line cook and a trash collector, he must balance a newfound sense of community with his own itch for self-destruction. Slyly funny and imbued with a warm humanity, Harris Dickinson’s thrilling directorial debut follows Mike, played with tragic charm and a visceral magnetism by Cannes prize-winner Frank Dillane, in a propulsive portrait of life on the margins that offers a raw, anarchic snapshot of a slow tumble into oblivion.

Check out the U.S. trailer and poster below.

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