Soul Boy
Thursday September 9th 2010
Director: Tom Tykwer, Hawa Essuman
Cast: Nordeen Abdulghani, Christopher Abuga, Rose Adhiambo, Jones Onyango Ajwala, Consolata Apondi, Micheal Babu, Katherine Damaris, Lucy Gachanja, John Githui, Frank Kimani
Producer(s): Marie Steinmann, Tom Tykwer
Writer(s): Billy Kahora
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 61 minutes
Website: http://www.soulboy-film.org/
Synopsis:
Cast: Nordeen Abdulghani, Christopher Abuga, Rose Adhiambo, Jones Onyango Ajwala, Consolata Apondi, Micheal Babu, Katherine Damaris, Lucy Gachanja, John Githui, Frank Kimani
Producer(s): Marie Steinmann, Tom Tykwer
Writer(s): Billy Kahora
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 61 minutes
Website: http://www.soulboy-film.org/
Synopsis:
Originating from a workshop led by Tom Tykwer (Perfume, The International, Run Lola Run), this disarmingly gentle debut from Ghanaian-Kenyan director Essuman combines supernatural myth and the hard-scrabble realities of big-city Nairobi, as a teenage lad performs seven tasks to save his (apparently) curse-stricken dad. The real magic, however, is in the script which intelligently explores a dizzyingly wide range of pressing issues, all within the most accessibly economic of packages.
