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Farming (2018)

Farming poster
Directed by
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
R
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 76 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Nigerian boy is raised by white foster parents in 1980s London. As a teenager, he joins a white skinhead gang.

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What happens

Farming is a 2018 British film written and directed by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje in his directorial debut, based on his own childhood. The plot is about a child whose Yorùbá parents gave him to a white working-class family in London in the 1980s, and who grows up to join a white skinhead gang. The film, which stars Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, John Dagleish, Jaime Winstone, Genevieve Nnaji, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, wrapped production in 2017. It premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September and won the Michael Powell Award at the 2019 Edinburgh Film Festival. The film was released by Lionsgate on 11 October 2019 in the UK and by eOne on 25 October 2019 in the US. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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