FAR FROM the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama “Tsotsi” resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. The 2005 Oscar winner in ...

Some worthy pictures–“Syriana” being an example–work better the second time, which doesn’t help you the first time, but there it is. Other films do their job effectively, owing more to reasons of ...

Far from the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama “Tsotsi” resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. A foreign-language ...

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Far from the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama “Tsotsi” resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. Still basking in the ...

A hardened young South African gang leader steals a woman's car -– then finds out her baby is in the back seat. So starts the South African film Tsotsi, which is up for an Academy Award for best ...

The movie “Tsotsi,” directed by Gavin Hood and based on the novel by Athol Fugard, is about a criminal’s redemption. It is about the transformation in a person and the faith that helped. “Tsotsi” was ...

Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who earned international acclaim for his role in the Oscar-winning film Tsotsi, the first South African movie to win an Oscar, has died. He was 40.

Tsotsi, by South African director Gavin Hood has won the Oscar for best foreign language film. Tsotsi is a young gangster who has fended for himself in a shantytown just outside of Johannesburg since ...

It is a year since the South African film Tsotsi won the best foreign language film at the Oscars and is now in competition at Fespaco, the biannual African film festival in Burkina Faso. It was an ...

The co-president of The Little Film Company worked on titles including 'Waking Ned Devine,' 'An American Haunting' and 'Before Night Falls.' By Katie Kilkenny, Alex Ritman Tsotsi executive producer ...