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Beyond the Divide

Image from a dramatic reconstruction - Two white skinhead males are staring aggressively at a black man.
Documentary interview image. A black man wearing glasses in looking directly into the camera.
Documentary interview image. Side profile view of a man thinking.

Synopsis

A Black British activist and a former neo-Nazi sit face to face. In a tense encounter combining direct testimony with dramatic reconstruction, each man is forced to confront what brought him to this point: one radicalised by hate, one shaped by the movement that resists it.
Chris Otokito and Nigel Bromage meet for the first time on camera. What unfolds is an unsparing examination of how far-right extremism takes root in Britain and whether dialogue across that divide is possible at all.
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Details

Year
2025
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
12 min 10 sec
Director
Imoje Aikhoje
Producer
Kathryn O'Reilly, Imoje Aikhoje
Executive Producer
Barbie MacLaurin, Michael Owusu
Editor
Alison Grasso, Imoje Aikhoje
Director of Photography
Ariel Artur
Production Designer
Jackson Pritchard
Sound
Blai Escayola Bosch
Composer
Felix Morgan
Principal cast
Chris Otokito, Nigel Bromage
Second Assistant Director
Alex Mill
First Assistant Director
Kathryn O'Reilly
Art Director
Walid Azam
Costume Design
Tyra Ali, Grace Priem
Colourist
Nick Wakeling
Researcher
Miriam Kamara
Sound Designer
Mihai Udateanu
Gaffer
Simon Battensby
First Assistant Camera
Steven Fairman
Spark
Reed Johnson
Second Assistant Camera
Moritz Oskar Meyer
Camera Operator
Lee Mj Daley

Genre

Black Docufiction Human Rights

Categories

Documentary

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Strayborn Ltd

Imoje Aikhoje

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