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A new trailer for Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s directorial debut Farming has been released online by Lionsgate. The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, and will head to cinemas in October.
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.
Here’s the official synopsis:
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.
The cast is led by Damson Idris (Snowfall, Black Mirror), Kate Beckinsale (The Widow, Pearl Harbour), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle, A Wrinkle in Time), Olivier Award-winner John Dagleish (Christopher Robin, Mary Poppins Returns), Jaime Winstone (Love, Rosie, Tomb Raider), Ann Mitchell (The Deep Blue Sea, Widows), Genevieve Nnaji (Road to Yesterday, Lionheart), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Oz, Lost), Lee Ross (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, White Gold) and Zephan Amissah.
Farming will be released in cinemas on 11 October 2019 by Lionsgate. Here’s the new trailer.
