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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 Yorubá 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.
Oct 25, 2019 · A Nigerian boy is fostered by a white British family in the 1980s and joins a skinhead gang. IMDb users rate and review this film, which is based on the writer/director's life story but faces controversy over its accuracy.
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- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- 2019-10-25
Jul 17, 2019 · 1M views 4 years ago #FarmingMovie. [WARNING: Contains Explicit Content] In Cinemas NOW Starring: Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, John Dagleish, Jaime Winstone, Genevieve Nn ...more.
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Sep 18, 2018 · Based on the director's own experience, the film depicts how a black boy joins a white skinhead gang in the 1980s as a way to cope with racism and rejection. The film is bleak, brutal and unflinching, but also frustratingly vague about the systemic causes and consequences of "farming" children.
Farming is a 2019 biographical drama film based on the true story of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who was sent to a white British family as a child. The film explores his struggles with identity, racism and violence as a skinhead leader.
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- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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- Kate Beckinsale
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje directs and stars in Farming, a film based on his own experience of being sent to white foster parents in Essex in the 70s. He faced racism, abuse and gangs, and eventually returned to Nigeria.
Oct 11, 2019 · Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
