The issue of War widow representation in Israeli cinema is one of the most complex for the local industry for it seems to be unique and with a very local and specific iconography.
　　The war Widow is a difficult character to digest. Because this is an especially painful topic in Israel, its mode of representation is almost always problematic.
　　Gila Almagor in Tofano's "siege" is one of the first characters of the "modern" war widows to appear on Israeli cinema screens.
　　The human and social complexity of the status of widows was not represented adequately and personally until her complex and fine appearance in this film.
　　It was mostly Preceded by cliches of heroic women who have sacrificed for the nation with characters to which it was very difficult to get attached, nor to their personal grief.
　　"Siege" was directed by an unknown Italian director of that period. Although Gilberto Tofano was brought as a professional director on the wings of inspiration made by the French New Wave of those years, he managed to turn out a very exciting work which has caught the Israeli warmth and sense of social siege which surrounds the Israeli widows, including the great expectations from them and the social stigmas.
　　Tofano wrapped his leading lady with lots of warmth and gave a place of honor to Almagor's impressive presence in the film.
　　This is without a doubt one of Almagor's best and most accurate performances. The restraint in her performance plus the shooting and expressive use of angles by Tofano and his soft European touch which was far off from the aggressive local product managed to produce a sense of documenting an authentic tragedy with a tangible personal touch that minimized the national dimension. The result stands the test of time proudly several decades after its creation.

　　The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.
　　The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,
　　the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.
　　Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.

　　一个资产阶级作家没有随家人撤离，而是满怀喜悦要目睹革命后的古巴现状。他流连于哈瓦那的街头，沉思并观望着这个国家的变化，然而他也不自觉地因为自己的好色风流而陷入道德危机之中。

　　2001年戛纳电影节影评人周单元最佳影片奖
　　2001年东京国际电影节最佳导演奖、评审团奖
　　神学院学生赛耶德·哈桑即将升职做牧师，偏偏在就职典礼之前他的礼服被一个小男孩偷去了。于是他追踪到一个边远的郊区，那里的居民生活贫苦，从未见过牧师，对此知之甚少。最后，赛耶德学会了重要的一课：在宗教教义与艰难的生活现实生活存在着鸿沟，而这样的差异需要用情感去填补。雷萨-米尔卡瑞米导演在东京国际电影节致词时特别强调，他想告诉大家其实伊斯兰教是很爱好和平的宗教，而且也反对恐怖主义，并不是一种带暴力色彩的宗教。
　　与我们同根同种的亚洲人拍的这片子里，处处使我觉得亲切熟稔。年轻人憨憨而不知所措的表情、学校长者官腔却不乏真情的训导、暗淡而陈旧的店铺、城市角落里最卑微的人群、缓慢的生活，这一切都像是我们自己在成长路上所经历所看见过的。
　　他们多诚实，伊朗的贫困与落后历历地显现出来。可我敢说，这片子能打动的绝不止我一个人，也不止我们这些亚洲人。描绘贫穷而非展示贫穷，坦陈伤口而非哀矜伤口，伊朗的导演实在胜过我们某些所谓著名导演太多。

　　一个曾经丧失人性的刑讯逼供者.在几十年之后接受电台记者的采访重新回忆自己那段罪孽深重的过去.他以前拷问别人,现在却接受这个记者的“拷问”.在这个下午,拷问的不仅仅是他本人,也拷问了人性,拷问了整个社会制度。

　　Meek farmhand Sasha and policeman Dima have a fraught relationship. They’re brothers-in-law, travel companions, and⁠—secretly⁠—lovers. Over the course of their journey to visit Sasha’s grandmother, unspoken truths are uttered, intimacy is built, and authenticity is challenged. Although they may be far from the peering eyes of their oppressive society, their relationship teeters on a dangerous precipice.
　　Selected and supported by the IFP Filmmaker Lab and destined to evoke both the breathtaking landscapes of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and the tragedy of a Dostoevsky novel, Viatcheslav Kopturevskiy’s auspicious debut drama is an elliptical and much-needed examination of internalized homophobia, repression, and identity in a remote Siberian town.

　　剧情改编自意大利语言学家兼小说家佳维诺莱达自学成功的真实故事，他原是萨丁尼亚地区的牧羊人，二十岁之前还目不识丁，后因不堪父亲的淫威而自愿从军。军中一位袍泽教他读书识字，从此改变了他的精神世界。退伍后他跑去上大学研究语文，然后回故乡用知识跟严父对抗。
　　幕后花絮：
　　本片是意大利导演塔维亚尼兄弟首部扬威国际影坛的力作，获戛纳电影节金棕榈大奖。导演用沉寂多时的意大利新写实主义电影手法来处理这个发生在穷乡僻壤的父子对抗故事，气氛平实感人，有一种原始的美。当年轻的佳维诺在聆听了陌生人的手风琴演奏，而决定拿两只小羊换取手风琴的那一刻令人兴奋，因为他终于采取行动反抗父亲了。

　　耍狠的大哥制定了地下法規，賺髒錢買華服，走路有風。小弟如我，只能在廣場嗑南瓜子，邊流口水看妹，邊模擬接吻，屬於我的時代何時到來？主角嘗試使壞，遇見鎮上的壞胚子，經歷詭異、噁心、殘酷卻又奇幻的一夜。鮮豔的影像色彩、實驗電子配樂，導演的處女作展現獨特風格，寫實的文本有著超現實的情節與視覺，使本片切中青少年議題而不落俗套。

　　Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.

　　"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
　　"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport  both in their professional and daily lives  between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.
　　The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson
　　"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum

　　Follows Juan, an agent working for the intelligence services, who also reports to a parallel unit involved in illegal activities.

　　In mid-’80s Romania, a gifted mathematician is under investigation for plans to publish a new theorem by smuggling it overseas. He’s one in a network of academics struggling beneath the oppressive dictatorship in this gripping tale of science and secrecy.

　　27岁的Rachel一个人照顾着24岁的智障妹妹Gabby。Rachel工作的时候不得不把Gabby独自留在家中，被社工发现后，Rachel不得不奖Gabby送往日托中心，然而这大大改变了Rachel的生活，因为这是她第一次与别人共同分享对亲爱妹妹的教养，妹妹的缺席令她的日常生活产生大片的空白与崩溃。另一方面，Zohar成为撕扯她与妹妹之间纽带的另一道伤痕，Rachel无法与除了她和妹妹的其他人发展出正常的亲密关系，不得不迫使他们陷入一个扭曲的三人关系，爱的界限也饱受蹂躏……

　　当你发现你的朋友有罪，你是大义灭亲还是姑息放纵？今年奥斯卡最佳影片《聚焦》讲述了“聚焦”小组揭露天主教性侵儿童丑闻的故事。无独有偶，这部德国版“聚焦”再度把牧师娈童话题置于台面。有别于《聚焦》一层层抽丝剥茧的揭露真相，通过神父视角展现各方势力交织下的无奈痛苦，以小格局揭露真相背后深不可测的阴谋，对《圣经》的引述尽显反讽意味。荣获圣芭芭拉国际电影节人民选择奖。

　　Gangacharan是村里新来的婆罗门（印度僧侣）。在村里，他承担了多种职责。包括教书，组织宗教事务，预防流行病等等。在1943年的印度，时局动荡，战争频仍。乡村上方经常有飞机呼叫盘旋，发出战争的信号。此时，饥荒开始侵袭村民，食物的极度希缺对于已经被战争搅得人心惶惶的村民来说，简直是一次灾难性的生存难关。Gangacharan决定运用他的僧侣身份和特权为村民们争取利益，躲过饥荒。同时，Ganga...

　　Ein überzeugender wie großformatiger Ost-West-Stoff, der die großen Themenkomplexe Stasi-, Republikflucht und Loyalität unter Freunden in einer packenden Liebesgeschichte erzählt.

　　The father of an ill girl tries to obtain her daughter last wish, the dress of the main character of a Japanese TV series. Because of this last wish he will meet a disturbed girl and a retired professor.

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　　影片讲的是，忠厚本分的年轻人皮特是个泥瓦匠，他十分孝顺父母，还亲自为他们造了一所房子。然而父母对他的态度似乎并没有因此而好转。之后，他遇上了心爱的女人艾瑞卡。他们一起搬到了慕尼黑，然而，生活的重压，金钱上的困窘却让皮特这个年轻人渐渐改变，最终沦为了阶下囚，而这一切只是为了让妻子爱他……
　　该片被一些评论家认为是莱纳尔·沃纳尔·法斯宾德的最佳电影代表作。

　　At 38, Thomas is at a crossroads in his life. His parents are nonstop guilt-inducers, his ex-wife is always on his back, and his son is far from inspirational. Thomas himself is almost too intellectual to survive daily life. The attentions of a straightforward English teacher seem to be a way out.

　　故事发生在人迹罕至的西伯利亚雅库原始森林之中，谢尔盖（叶甫盖尼·乌尔班斯基 Yevgeni Urbansky 饰）、安德烈（瓦西里·利万诺夫 Vasili Livanov 饰）、丹妮娅（塔吉娅娜·萨莫依洛娃 Tatyana Samojlova 饰）和萨比宁（因诺肯季·斯莫克图诺夫斯基 Innokenti Smoktunovsky 饰）是四名地质勘探队的队员，他们正在此处探索，想要找到珍贵的金刚石矿床。
　　茫茫的原始森林之中，想要找到小小的矿床是何等的困难，四人忙碌数日，却一无所获，纷纷陷入了心灰意冷的情绪之中。然而就在这个节骨眼上，丹妮娅在偶然之中挖到了一块金刚石，这也就以为着，矿床就在不远之处。勘探队绘制了地图准备将其带往总部，此时森林中忽然燃起了熊熊大火，在浓烟和烈焰之中，一行人为了保护地图而付出了惨痛的代价。

　　讲述俄罗斯传奇诗人、歌手维索茨基的传记电影

　　曾经是一名警察的汉斯（汉斯·希尔斯缪勒 Hans Hirschmüller 饰）因为被妓女诬陷而丢掉了工作，为了糊口，心怀大志的他不得不成为了一名水果小贩。汉斯无法取得心爱姑娘的父母的信任和赏识，已经到了成家年龄的他最终娶了名叫伊尔姆加特（伊尔姆·海尔曼 Irm Her mann 饰）的女人。
　　自打结婚后，汉斯的人生正式走上的下坡路，伊尔姆加特的粗暴和无礼为汉斯的不如意雪上加霜。汉斯得了心脏病，在住院期间，独守空房的伊尔姆加特耐不住寂寞，和邻居安策尔（Karl Scheydt 饰）之间发生了不道德的关系。出院后的汉斯已经无力再沿街叫卖水果了，改为摆水果摊。一次偶然中，他与战友哈里（Klaus Löwitsch 饰）重逢了，尽管哈里给汉斯一家带来了不少的快乐，但他依旧无法阻止汉斯走向绝望。