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Directed by | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje |
Written by | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje |
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Cinematography | Kit Fraser |
Edited by | Tariq Anwar |
Music by | Ilan Eshkeri |
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Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Farming is a 2018 British film written and directed by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, based on his own childhood. The plot is about a child whose Yorùbá parents give him to a white working-class family in London in the 1980s, and who grows up to join a white skinhead gang led by a white supremacist.[2]
The film, which stars Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, John Dagleish, Jaime Winstone, Genevieve Nnaji, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, wrapped production in 2017.[3] It premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September and won the Michael Powell Award at the 2019 Edinburgh Film Festival.[4] The film was released by Lionsgate on 11 October 2019 in the UK and by eOne on 25 October 2019 in the US.