Education
Education
Release: 2020-12-13
·Runtime: 66m
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
BBC Film
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Kenyah Sandy
as Kingsley
Naomi Ackie
as Hazel
Nigel Boyle
as Mr. Hamley
Ralph Davis
as Senior Teacher
Kayla Meikle
as Mrs. Howard
Aiyana Goodfellow
as Nina
Jade Anouka
as Mrs. Morrison
Sharlene Whyte
as Mother
Temirlan Blaev
as Pupil
Tabitha Byron
as Sheila
Kate Dickie
as Miss Gill
Daniel Francis
as Esmond Smith
Jo Martin
as Mrs. Bartholomew
Adrian Rawlins
as Headmaster
