

New Boy
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $94K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- immigrant
- gun
- trauma
- bullying
- racism
- african
- ireland
- school teacher
- based on short story
- schoolboy
- african boy
- discrimination
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Release dates
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1214 Jul 2007
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New Boy was released on 14 July 2007.
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CinemaSerf
3/21/2024
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 offer a conduit for a…
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