Education (2020)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 2020-12-13
Runtime: 66 minutes
Director: Steve McQueen
Budget: $4,000,000 USD
Top Cast
- Kenyah Sandy as Kingsley
- Naomi Ackie as Hazel
- Jade Anouka as Mrs. Morrison
- Sharlene Whyte as Mother
- Temirlan Blaev as Pupil
- Nigel Boyle as Mr. Hamley
- Tabitha Byron as Sheila
- Ralph Davis as Senior Teacher
- Kate Dickie as Miss Gill
- Sam Fourness as Mr. Kimble
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Original Music Composer(s): N/A
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