Synopsis
Photojournalist Boniface "Softie" Mwangi runs for office in a regional Kenyan election, which puts pressure on his young family and his idealism.
Accolades
• Best Feature nominee, The International Documentary Association
• Editing Award winner, Sundance: World Cinema - Documentary Category
• Boniface Mwangi was named one of the Unforgettables at CinemaEye
“Riveting… Eye-opening as Softie is as an immediate account of toxic Kenyan politics, it’s an equally moving marriage story, unsentimental but generously sympathetic in its study of a family brought to the brink of collapse for a greater good cause.”
Guy Lodge, Variety
Sam Soko | Kenya | 2020 | 1 hr 21
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