Beverley

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2014, 25 minutes

It follows a mixed-race girl’s struggle to carve out a sense of identity in a confusing, shifting cultural landscape.

Beverley is set in Leicester in 1980. It follows a mixed-race girl’s struggle to carve out a sense of identity in a confusing, shifting cultural landscape. A move from the decaying, poverty-stricken, urban environment to the relative comfort and theoretical safety of white suburbia does not provide the hope and opportunities Bev may have wished for.