Tsotsi at the Oscars

Gavin Hood's third feature film, Tsotsi, has been submitted for the Foreign Film Category of the 78th Academy Awards. Tsotsi has already received rave reviews from international media after being screened at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Award. Based on Athol Fugard’s novel of the same name, it tells the story of a township gangster, Tsotsi, who learns to take care of an infant whose mother he shot during a car hijacking. Caring for the child gradually repairs Tsotsi's broken spirit.