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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The residue of imperialism hangs over modern day Johannesburg, portrayed in stark and unforgiving detail by director Gavin Hood in his crime drama “Tsotsi.” The film, which won Best Foreign Language ...

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 ...

As a child growing up in Johannesburg, writer/director Gavin Hood rarely saw images of fellow South Africans onscreen. When “Tsotsi,” his film about a brutish gangster re-evaluating his life while ...

JOHANNESBURG — Oscar winner “Tsotsi,” TV newsroom drama “Hard Copy” and soap “Isidingo” were the biggest winners at the first South African Film and Television Awards on Saturday. Broadcast live on ...

For the 19-year-old man-child they call Tsotsi -- Johannesburg street slang for "thug" -- it has come down to this: He has burst into an apartment, pulled out a gun and forced the woman inside to ...

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 ...

Pirated copies of the Oscar-winning South African film “Tsotsi” are selling like hotcakes in Botswana, the country’s northern neighbor, despite the March arrest of key members of a syndicate ...