• Director(s)

    Leo Regan

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    29/01/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    84m

Film

My Friend Lanre

drug misuse

This intimate and emotional documentary focuses on British photojournalist Lanre Fehintola, graphically detailing harrowing experiences of drug misuse and addiction, childhood domestic abuse, and his battle with lung cancer.…

This intimate and emotional documentary focuses on British photojournalist Lanre Fehintola, graphically detailing harrowing experiences of drug misuse and addiction, childhood domestic abuse, and his battle with lung cancer.

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Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

sexual violence and sexual threat

theme

threat and horror

  • Director(s)

    Leo Regan

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    29/01/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    84m

drug misuse
Classified Date:
26/01/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Emu Films
violence
A man talks about suffering domestic abuse as a child at the hands of his father; he recounts an occasion when his father used a razor blade to cut his fingernails and hands, before rubbing chilli oil into the wounds.
language
There is strong language ('f**k') along with milder terms such as 'frig', 'shit', 'bastard', 'bugger', 'bloody', 'hell', 'Jesus', 'Christ' and 'God'.
sex
A man says he was taken in and cared for by sex workers when he was young and homeless; there is no suggestion he had sexual encounters in this situation.
discrimination
A black man says he experienced racism as a child when in the British care system and was misnamed 'Sam', as an abbreviation of the racist term 'sambo', instead of being addressed by his real name.
drugs
There are frequent references to drug misuse, addiction and dealing. These include details and images of drug preparation and paraphernalia, as well as sight of drugs such as crack cocaine being smoked and close-up images of heroin being injected. We are told a man is using 'hash oil' to counter the side-effects of chemotherapy and there is sight of cannabis plants being grown. The film as a whole does not condone drug misuse and has a cautionary tone, also detailing a man's attempts to stop using heroin.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are brief, undetailed verbal references to the disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile being a paedophile.
theme
The film closely follows a man who's health deteriorates following a lung cancer diagnosis. We see him bedridden and in visibly worsening health in the later stages of his condition. There are scenes of emotional upset involving him and his loved ones in light of this illness.

  • Classified date

    26/01/2024

  • Language

    English