Farming

2019 • 107 minutes

About this movie

Based on his own life story, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's FARMING charts the extraordinary journey of a young fostered Nigerian boy who, struggling to find an identity, falls in with a skinhead gang in 1980's England. At six weeks old, Enitan (Zephan Amissah) is left in the care of a white working-class family in the dock-town of Tilbury, in Essex. His new surrogate mother, Ingrid (Kate Beckinsale), makes for a complex, but dubious foster parent. Unsure of his place in the world, and lacking a mother's love, desperate to belong the teenage Enitan (Damson Idris) spirals into self-destruction, falling in with a local skinhead gang led by Levi (John Dagleish). When all seems lost, a sympathetic teacher, Miss Dapo (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), offers him one last shot at redemption. Told with brutal honesty, FARMING is an unflinching autobiographical portrait of a young man who must battle the odds and realise that, in a world of hate, his toughest battle will be learning to love himself.

Ratings and reviews

Just seeing that they focused on skin color says it all about this movie. Pass. No wonder it's free, even free they can't get folks to watch it.

Loved this film. Great acting by mr Idris. Would definitely recommend it and watch it again.

Brilliant movie. It raises awareness of anti-black racism in the UK.