Director: Justin Chadwick Screenwriter: Ann Peacock
Cinematographer: Rob Hardy Editor: Paul Knight
Producer: Richard Harding, Sam Feuer
Country: UK Runtime: 01:38
World Premiere
Cast
Oliver Litondo, Naomie Harris
Synopsis
In a small, remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school. He is Maruge (Litondo), an old Mau Mau veteran in his eighties who is desperate to learn to read at this late stage of his life. He fought for the liberation of his country and now feels he must have the chance of an education so long denied-even if it means sitting in a classroom alongside six year-olds.
