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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.

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  • Kenyah Sandy

    Kenyah Sandy

    Kingsley

  • Naomi Ackie

    Naomi Ackie

    Hazel

  • Jade Anouka

    Jade Anouka

    Mrs. Morrison

  • Sharlene Whyte

    Sharlene Whyte

    Mother

  • Temirlan Blaev

    Temirlan Blaev

    Pupil

  • Nigel Boyle

    Nigel Boyle

    Mr. Hamley

  • Tabitha Byron

    Tabitha Byron

    Sheila

  • Ralph Davis

    Ralph Davis

    Senior Teacher

  • Kate Dickie

    Kate Dickie

    Miss Gill

Overview

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.

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