Three adolescent boys become captivated by the queer nightlife over summer break, but a missing person pulls them back into the reality they tried to leave behind.
Direction
Amenta's patient, non-judgmental eye lets kids just exist.
Acting
Non-professional cast captures that specific adolescent restlessness.
Cinematography
Toronto's queer nightlife shot with genuine tenderness, not voyeurism.
Director
Joseph Amenta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Amenta developed the script through workshops with actual Toronto youth, many of whom appear in background scenes.
Released amid debates about 'queer trauma' in cinema, Soft deliberately withholds the exploitation audiences were trained to expect—the violence is systemic, not spectacular.
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