New Boy

New Boy

New Boy

6.3/ 10

TMDB Rating

29

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2007

Release Year

11 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

A young African boy with a haunting backstory starts school in Ireland and quickly finds out exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.

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Keywords

immigrant

gun

trauma

bullying

racism

african

ireland

school teacher

based on short story

schoolboy

african boy

discrimination

woman director

new student

teachers and students

british school system

short film

school bullying

irish

Cast

Olutunji Ebun-Cole

Joseph

Simon O'Driscoll

Christian Kelly

Fionn O'Shea

Fionn O'Shea

Seth Quinn

Sinead Maguire

Hazel O'Hara

Norma Sheahan

Norma Sheahan

Teacher Lady

Byron Kumbala

Joseph's Father

Sade Oyewole

Pamela

Daniel Culleton

Student 1

Karl Donovan

Student 2

Oisin Pollock

Student 3

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

March 21, 2024

7

7/10

When "Joseph" (Ulutunji Ebun-Cole) arrives at his new Irish junior school, he is immediately reminded of his school at home (somewhere in Africa) and of the trauma that he experienced there that rather dwarves the petty bullying that he is soon experiencing from two of his classmates. Luckily, the y…

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