Win one of five double passes to new film The First Grader
TICKETS ARE FOR A PREVIEW SCREENING HELD AT THE REGAL TWIN CINEMA GRACEVILLE, BRISBANE ON THE 9TH NOVEMBER, 2011 About The First Grader:
Director: Justin Chadwick
Cast: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Vusi Kunene, Tony Kgoroge
Genre: Drama
Censor's rating: M - mature themes, violence & brief nudity
Film release date: 17 November 2011
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 (Oliver 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.
Moved by his passionate plea, head teacher Jane Obinchu (Naomie Harris who will be seen later as Moneypenny in Bond23), supports his struggle to gain admission and together they face fierce opposition from parents and officials who don’t want to waste a precious school place on such an old man.
Full of vitality and humour, the film explores the remarkable relationships Maruge builds with his classmates some eighty years his junior. Through Maruge’s journey, we are taken back to the shocking untold story of British colonial rule 50 years earlier where Maruge fought for the freedom of his country, eventually ending up in the extreme and harsh conditions of the British detention camps.
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