Farming (film)

Farming
Directed byAdewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Written byAdewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyKit Fraser
Edited byTariq Anwar
Music byIlan Eshkeri
Production
companies
  • Metalwork Pictures
  • Logical Pictures
  • HanWay Films
  • Montebello Productions
  • Groundswell Productions
  • AAA Studios
Distributed byLionsgate
Release dates
  • 8 September 2018 (2018-09-08) (TIFF)
  • 11 October 2019 (2019-10-11) (United Kingdom)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.

  1. ^ "British Council Film: Farming". Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  2. ^ Piers Handling (2018). "Farming programme note". Toronto International Film Festival. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  3. ^ Dave McNary (2 November 2017). "First Look at Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw's British Drama 'Farming'". Variety. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  4. ^ Clarke, Stewart (28 June 2019). "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's 'Farming' Wins at Edinburgh International Film Festival". Variety. Retrieved 9 October 2019.