Farming (2018)

Released October 25, 2019 in the US.

Filmed entirely in England.

Based on truths.

The story: Tilbury, England, 1967.

New Nigerian parents Femi and Paddy have come to England to pay for their six-week-old son Enitan to live in a foster home. 

They believe it is best for the time being, as they need to go back home and continue on with their studies and work.

But it will not be forever.

Many years go by and Enitan is still living with the same foster parents, along with many other children two of whom are his younger blood sisters.

Enitan tries very hard to capture the love and adoration of his foster mother, but she isn't exactly interested.

He begins feeling alienated and alone, knowing he is different. Everyone who is cruel to him is white and this makes him want to be white as well.

Suddenly, Enitan's life is uprooted when Femi and Paddy show up to take him back to Nigeria.

Enitan is scared and confused there and, after some time, not able to adapt.

With no choice, his parents send him back to his foster parents once again, but he's really confused, scared, and traumatized now.

The only thing Enitan seems to be interested in is escape. 

He is a kind soul who is misunderstood time and time again, while just wanting to be accepted somewhere.

When Enitan becomes a young teenager, he is a violent and unruly loner, just living inside himself.

But not as violent and unruly as the gang that is cruelest to him, whom Enitan begins thinking he was born to run with.

Stars Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, Ademola Adedoyin, Kate Beckinsale, Ann Mitchell, Lee Ross, Zephan Hanson Amissah, Adejola Adeyemi, Brooklyn Appiah, Michael Akinsulire, Shane Attwooll, Zach Avery, Rachael Banjo, Theo Barklem Biggs, Bradley Bissett, Scarlett Brookes, Kirstie Brough, Damson Idris, Gugu Mbatha Raw, Craig Canning, Tom Canton, John Dagleish, James Eeles, Ryan Enever, Cosmo Jarvis, Skye Lourie, Robert Maskell, Ella McLoughlin, Mike Shanti

Directed by (& story written) Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje

Rated R
DRAMA/BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY

"Between the 1960s and the 1980s, tens of thousands of Nigerian children were fostered out by their parents to white working-class families in the UK.

This informal system became known as "farming".

This is one of their stories..."