(Education)

Content: A Black boy’s journey through an ineffectual public school system reveals the racial inequities built into everyday British life. Young Kingsley Smith (Kenyah Sandy) is a spirited aspiring astronaut with a love of drawing whose life is turned upside down when he is thrust into a new school for the “educationally subnormal”—a harrowing experience that gradually awakens his mother (Sharlene Whyte) to the institutional mistreatment of the children of West Indian immigrants. Shot on Super 16 mm to evoke BBC television dramas from the 1970s, the final Small Axe film concludes the pentalogy with a hopeful vision of the power of Black-led collective action.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

66 minutes

Year:

2020

Directors:

Steve McQueen

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Production companies:

BBC Film

Actors:

Kingsley

Hazel

Mrs. Morrison

Mother

Pupil

Crews:

Director

Writer

Writer

Writer

Producer