在劫車時意外撿走的小男嬰，令早已遺忘良知的童黨首領「古惑」重新燃起對生命的盼望。為了在社會低下層求存，打家劫舍、殺人放火早成家常便飯，但嬰孩純真的眼光為他帶來心靈救贖，亦令他衝破迷惘回歸人性至善。導演真實地反映貧民窟的嚴重黑幫及童黨問題，而片名《Tsotsi》在南非俚語中正是少年流氓的意思，遠在當地仍有無數的失落靈魂為生計挺而走險。本片在歐、美影展屢獲獎項，更榮獲奧斯卡最佳外語片。
Gavin Hood has taken Athol Fugard's 1960 novel and re-shaped it for a post-Apartheid South Africa. Gang leader Tsotsi's mean life of thievery and murder is thrown when a carjacking episode leaves him caring for a young baby. He is forced to think about someone else for the first time in his life… an emotionally honest tale of redemption that never forgets there are consequences for bad acts.

猶太裔律師眼見納粹黨日漸坐大而舉家逃離德國，能否融入肯雅的簡樸生活對嬌生慣養的妻子來說是個絕大考驗，曾深受歧視之苦的她對原居民深抱成見，可愛的小女兒反比大人更懂事，更與家庭廚子有一段深厚友誼。當威脅終成過去，要跟這片荒蕪地說再見，看來不是易事。改編自史提芬尼薩韋的原著自傳小說，電影裡的非洲不再樣板地淪為極待救援的煉獄，事實上更是守護著這一家三口的天堂。電影曾在德國本土獲多個獎項，包括德國電影節最佳導演、最佳女主角、最佳攝影、最佳音樂及最佳男配角，更是奧斯卡最佳外語片得主。
Adapted from the best-selling autobiography, this Oscar winner of Best Foreign Film tells a moving story of a little German-Jewish girl, whose family has moved to a small isolated farm in Kenya so as to escape the Nazi terror during the WWII. On this foreign continent, she gradually discovers the magic of Africa, connects to the local people. But when her father realises that the rest of his family have been murdered by the Nazis, he cannot cut himself from the German root anymore. He plans to move back to Germany but this inevitably puts him into conflict with his daughter. Reflective and beautifully shot, Caroline Link after her 'Beyond Silence' leads us to the dilemma of one's history and identity.

孤獨無依的八十歲老婆婆避世隱居，可是村民仍愛以「巫婆」之名詆毀她，又老是將不幸的事情往她身上推。天真的十歲小孩當然沒有那不可理喻的偏見，閒來除了與心儀小女孩捉迷藏，更愛冒險跟老婆婆打交道。第二代非洲導演伊德沙屋德瑞古主張以非洲本土的眼光拍電影，大自然的草木沙泥都一一成為他明淨的美學道具，並以之建構其盡現人性真善美的理想世界。本片曾在各地影展備受注目，更獲得康城影展國際影評人FIPRESCI大獎、評審團特別獎及東京影展青年導演櫻花金獎。
The very touching story about a young boy's affection for an old woman whom the villagers believe to be a witch, YAABA examines a major aspect of African and societies, the complicity between the young and the old. Shot in the director's homeland of Burkina Faso, the film is both lush and minimalist, sensual and barren, with shimmering, brighter-than-bright surface and landscapes that seem to stretch out to the end of forever.