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 in his directorial debut, based on his own childhood. The plot is about a child whose Yorùbá parents gave him to a white working-class family in London in the 1980s, and who grows up to join a white skinhead gang.

The film, which stars Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, John Dagleish, Jaime Winstone, Genevieve Nnaji, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, wrapped production in 2017. It premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September and won the Michael Powell Award at the 2019 Edinburgh Film Festival. The film was released by Lionsgate on 11 October 2019 in the UK and by eOne on 25 October 2019 in the US.