Movie
Rocks
Overview
15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and with the help of her loyal friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her young life.
Details
- Release date
- 2020-09-09
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Fable Pictures, Film4 Productions, The Wellcome Trust, Head Gear Films, Kreo Films, Metrol Technology, BFI
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Bukky Bakray as Rocks
- Kosar Ali as Sumaya
- D'Angelou Osei-Kissiedu as Emmanuel
- Shaneigha-Monik Greyson as Roshé
- Ruby Stokes as Agnes
- Tawheda Begum as Khadijah
- Afi Okaidja as Yawa
- Anastasia Dymitrow as Sabina
- Sarah Niles as Ms. Booker
- Layo-Christina Akinlude as Funke Omotoso
- Sharon D. Clarke as Anita
- Islah Abdur-Rahman as Ismail
Crew
- Sarah Gavron - Director
- Theresa Ikoko - Writer
- Claire Wilson - Writer
- Theresa Ikoko - Story
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