Film
The Last Tree
Virtual
Dir.. Shola Amoo | 98min, 2020
With Sam Adewunmi, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Denise Black, Tai Golding, Nicholas Pinnock
In Shola Amoo’s semi-autobiographical story, Femi, a British boy of Nigerian heritage is raised in foster care in rural Lincolnshire. When he moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother, he struggles with the culture and values of his new environment. Femi must decide which path to adulthood he wants to take, and what it means to be a young black man in London during the early 2000s.
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