South Africa has earned its second consecutive Best Foreign Language Film nomination in the country's history; "Yesterday" 2004 and "Tsotsi" 2005. Written and directed by Gavin Hood and based on a novel by Athol Fugard, both South African natives, "Tsotsi" would be the country's first Academy Award.

6th Havana Film Festival in New York will open at the Quad Cinema, April 15 with award-winning films from Havana's Film Festival and new independent films from and about Latin America that rarely have an opportunity to be screened outside of their country of origin.