The Kenyan film Softie is gaining momentum as documentary features make their closing arguments for inclusion on the Oscar shortlist, with preliminary voting set to wrap up Friday. The film was ...

What is Boniface up to now? Is he gearing up for the next election? Boniface started goat farming to help get his mind off things. He has been active on social media, sharing many different issues ...

Activist Boniface Mwangi at a past event. I went into the Softie film thinking I knew exactly what to expect. I know about Boniface Mwangi, after all, like most people in Nairobi do, having seen him ...

"Softie" by French director Samuel Theis took the top prize at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Sunday. Theis, 43, won the Golden Alexander and 10,000 euros ($11,450) for the gay coming ...

The Skip City International D-Cinema Festival in outer Tokyo wrapped its 19th edition on Sunday with prizes going to “Softie, by French director Samuel Theis, and “Double Life,” by female Chinese ...

On the cover of his 2017 memoir, Unbounded, Boniface Mwangi, the consummate photographer activist-turned-politician, adorns a shirt fashioned out of the national flag, a distant, contemplative look in ...

Softie, follows the life of Kenyan photographer and political activist Boniface Mwangi. It has been selected in the category of the Best Documentary Feature and is among more than 40 documentaries ...

Ten-year-old Johnny (Aliocha Reinert) may have the face of an angel, but his living circumstances are far from heavenly. Living in a run-down high-rise in northeast France with his struggling young ...

PBS’s documentary arm POV has snapped up U.S. broadcast rights for Kenyan director Sam Soko’s “Softie,” fresh off its world premiere in the World Documentary Cinema competition at Sundance, Variety ...

PALMA, Spain, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest has concluded with a gala in which the French film "Softie", by Samuel Theis, was proclaimed best film, and the actress ...

Samuel Theis’ “Softie” won the top prize at the 62nd Thessaloniki Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday night with a ceremony in Greece’s second city. The film, which premiered in Cannes’ Critics’ Week ...