URCHIN follows Mike, a rough sleeper in London, trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Raw and absurd, the film is a story about the strange patterns that keep pulling us back. With URCHIN, actor Harris Dickinson (BEACH RATS, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, BABYGIRL) makes the transition to directing and impresses with an unvarnished social drama in which he also takes on a supporting role.

“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.” (The Guardian)

Harris Dickinson, born in East London in 1996, became involved in acting and filmmaking at a young age, completing theatre training at the Raw Academy and participating in an exam program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He gained recognition as an actor in BEACH RATS, followed by TRIANGLE OF SADNESS and BABYGIRL. After several short films, he directed his first feature film, URCHIN, an unvarnished social drama that premiered at Cannes in 2025.

Filmography (selection): 2013 WHO CARES, 2015 DROP, 2021 2003 (all short films), 2025 URCHIN

Awards: FIPRESCI Prize and Award for Best Actor to Frank Dillane in the “Un Certain Regard” section (Cannes International Film Festival, France 2025)