The Last Tree

Directed by SHOLA AMOO

Starring SAM ADEWUNMI, NICHOLAS PINNOCK, GBEMISOLA IKUMELO

Released 27 SEPTEMBER

The concept of being uprooted – be it literally or metaphorically – lies at the heart of Shola Amoo’s. Femi, an 11-year-old British-Nigerian boy, has a peaceful life in the idyllic Lincolnshire countryside, where he lives with his white foster mother Mary. He whiles away the hours exploring the seemingly endless lush fields which surround his home, until his birth mother returns and he moves into her flat in inner-city London. Finding himself transposed to a grey and noisy housing estate and at odds with a parent he doesn’t really know, Femi struggles to adapt, as well as make sense of warring elements of his identity.