New Boy
A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly 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.
- 6.5
- 2007
- Released
- 0h 11m
Olutunji Ebun-Cole
JosephSimon O'Driscoll
Christian Kelly
Fionn O'Shea
Seth QuinnSinead Maguire
Hazel O'Hara
Norma Sheahan
Teacher LadyByron Kumbala
Joseph's FatherSade Oyewole
PamelaDaniel Culleton
Student 1Karl Donovan
Student 2Oisin Pollock
Student 3Conor Kennedy
Student 4Chukwudi Ugwu
Lead SoldierBoye Karumwi
Armed Soldier 1Kayode Ayinde
Armed Soldier 2Keith Buggy
Boy in Class
Released
en
$94,000.00
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- #irish
Reviews
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 young "Hazel" (Sinead Maguire) takes a bit of a shine to their new boy and her behaviour might just o