Education

Education (2020)

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.

Director: Steve McQueen

Casts

	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
	Daniel Francis as Esmond Smith
	Aiyana Goodfellow as Nina
	Roshawn Hewitt as Baz
	Tamara Lawrence as Stephanie Smith
	Jo Martin as Mrs. Bartholomew
	Ryan Masher as Joseph
	Kayla Meikle as Mrs. Howard
	Adrian Rawlins as Headmaster

Crew