Lionsgate has released the trailer to Nigerian-British writer and director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s “Farming,” which is based on his autobiographical story.
The film stars Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Genevieve Nnaji.
The film made its world premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and recently won the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Festival this past June. Idris also won Best Performance in a British Feature Film at the festival.
The film chronicles Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s own coming-of-age story growing up fostered by a white working class family in the U.K.
Enitan (Amissah/Idris) is a young boy “farmed out” by his parents to a white British family in the hope of giving him a better future. Caught between two worlds and belonging to neither, Enitan’s need for love and acceptance is exploited by the adults in his life, transforming a sweet boy into a teenage menace.
Driven by themes of identity, power, love and betrayal, FARMING is rich with compelling characters: complex and dubious foster mother Ingrid (Beckinsale), Levi (Dagleish) the charismatic gang leader whom Enitan must overcome, and at its heart our flawed hero, Enitan, a lost soul desperately searching for a mother’s love as he struggles to find himself in a brutal world. When all seems lost and Enitan spirals into self-destruction, a benevolent teacher (Mbatha-Raw) offers him one last chance at redemption.
Farming comes to UK theaters on October 11. The film will hit US shores on October 25.
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