Absolutely another to add to your must-watch list this January, on Netflix! The Kitchen is 10 years in the making, and it’s an original story from Daniel Kaluuya, Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Emmerson, which also gives us the feature directing debuts of Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya, and it’s also the film debut of Kane Robinson.

The Kitchen is a film about community, inequality, family, class, joy, resilience, courage, defiance, and care in London – and communities around the globe – here’s the full synopsis, and the trailer just below!

In a dystopian London, the gap between rich and poor has been stretched to its limits. All forms of social housing have been eradicated and only The Kitchen remains. A community that refuses to move out of the place they call home. This is where we meet a solitary Izi, living here by necessity and desperately trying to find a way out, and a 12-year-old Benji, who has lost his mother and is searching for a family. We follow our unlikely pair as they struggle to forge a relationship in a system that is stacked against them.

Written by Kaluuya and Joe Murtagh, The Kitchen will be released in select UK cinemas from 12 January and on Netflix from 19 January