Director
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Starring
Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Dagleish, Jaime Winstone
Run Time
108 mins
Release Year
2018
Country of Origin
UK
Language
English
Director of Photography: Kit Fraser
Editor: Tariq Anwar
Produced by: François Ivernel, Andrew Levitas, Michael London, Janice Williams
Music: Ilan Eshkeri
Screenplay by: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Production Designer: Miren Marañón
Sound Production: Arthur Graley, Steve Whetman
Farming
Part of the Best of British Strand
Writer-director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje delves into his own childhood for this tough and powerful drama. Enitan (Damson Idris) is left in the care of a British foster family by his Nigerian parents, who hope it will provide him with a better future. Instead, teenaged Enitan joins a skinhead gang, led by the brutal Levi (John Dagleish). Kate Beckinsale stars as working-class mother Ingrid who fosters the young Enitan, while Gugu Mbatha-Raw is the teacher who struggles to help him avoid self-destruction. An enthralling and moving real-life story. [15]
Farming is nominated for the 2019 Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film.