简介：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.

简介：尼基与弗洛是一对儿女亲家，但二人的性格却截然相反，尼基严谨，做任何事都保持一种巨人作风，但弗洛就比较随和、开放。这两位炯异的人对即将离开罗马尼亚远赴美国的孩子们也持不同意见，一个希望儿女留在身边，另一个坚决支持出国，尼基的女儿因此更喜欢弗洛，到了美国后也给他写信，尼基因此心理不平衡，最终选择了谋杀弗洛里...

简介：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

简介：伊斯坦布尔受到政治暴力的控制。 Hamza, 是一名高级政治官员，他从监狱里释放了 Kadir，条件是Kadir要在垃圾收集器的新情报单位工作。Kadir 答应了，开始从贫民窟收集垃圾，并检查它是否包含制造炸弹的材料。可Kadir 发现他的弟弟Ahmet身在其中，Ahm et 在市政当局工作，并负责一件清除流浪汉的行动……

简介：莱尼·格鲁伊滕生于30年代的一个从事建筑工程的商人家庭。在纳粹上台之后，她家曾获利其中。但在接下来的二战时期，莱尼却经受了一次又一次命运的打击。当她在战败前夕爱上俄罗斯战俘博里斯的时候，她被人民唾骂成“苏联婊子”。然而，即使是博里斯的死也没有打消莱尼对生活的勇气。她过着隐居的生活，而当她与土耳其劳工梅赫梅特相识相爱之后，她又重新选择了遵从自己内心的感受。(豆瓣字幕翻译2.0小组)

简介：在与天相连的莽莽群山之中有一座藏族村寨，由于生产的粮食不够自给，世世代代靠运盐为生。老首领天尼的儿子本应是下一任村里的头人，却在运盐的路上意外身亡，而众望所归的继任者卡玛在天尼的眼中则是为夺头人之位而蓄意害死自己儿子的罪犯。在一次新的运盐旅程开始前夕，村子里以老天尼和卡玛分别为首的两派各持一辞，互不相让。最终卡玛带领年轻人在提前于老人们占卜的日子出发，而天尼而带领自己当喇嘛的儿子和孙子以前一群老随从按占卜的日子上路。运盐队伍不仅一路风餐露宿还要应对群山之中意想不到的危险，两支运盐的队伍谁能克服艰难险阻先到达旅途的终点？本片影像风格粗狂绮丽、荡气回肠，宛如仙乐般的藏密梵音贯穿始终，令人心旷神怡。　　该片是由法国、尼泊尼、瑞士和英国四国合作，历时9个月拍摄的剧情与纪录大片，曾入围第72届奥斯卡最佳外语片奖提名以及2000年欧洲电影最佳摄影奖提名，并于当年获得了恺撒最佳摄影奖和音乐奖。

简介：2007柏林电影节评审团奖。　　讲述一个变换身份的神秘人的故事。像往常一样，某天去另一个国家出差，却变成了另一段旅程的开始：当他到达他的目的地时，Juan Desouza发现他身边一位男子已经死亡。鬼使神差的，像进入一个游戏世界一样，他决定用这个人的身份，为自己找一份工作，找一个地方栖身，并且不希望回到过去的生活。　　在他的这种新生活里，在可能的状态下，在没有目的的情况下，这个男人开始了一段探寻本性的冒险。为了重新发现他的人生观，他用自己最基本的本能，试图领悟他对生活的理解。对他来说，他选择什么生活，他为什么活着，绝不是只有一种可能。　　此片由德法与阿根廷合拍，艾瑞尔-罗特为阿根廷青年导演兼编剧，继2001年推出《Sólo por hoy》(生活在他方)后，此次艾瑞尔-罗特带着《El otro》再次来到柏林。该片其导演的第二部作品。Julio Chávez曾凭借在玛莉亚.卢萨.贝姆1982年执导的文艺片《Senora de nadie》(无丈妻身)，在巴拿马影展中获得最佳女演员奖，该片堪称八十年代阿根廷电影的经典之作。其出演的影片《守护者》是56届柏林电影节参展影片。

简介：今天的阿尔及利亚：三个故事，三代人。穆拉德，一位离过婚的房地产开发商，觉得身边所有人都在逃避他。艾莎，一个年轻的女孩，在情人和未婚夫之间两难挣扎。达曼，一位神经学家，在婚礼前的一天突然被他的过去所困扰。

简介：德国慕尼黑，丈夫克里斯特告别了妻子亚丽安娜（Margit Carstensen 饰）与瘸腿女儿安吉拉（Andrea Schober 饰），赴奥斯陆公干，但他在半路中转，约会了情人并将其带到自己的乡间别墅。但他意外发现亚丽安娜与情人——自己的助手早已抵达别墅偷情，四人很快在尴尬的气氛中回过神来，坐到了一张桌子上享用晚餐。负责照料别墅的卡斯特与加百列母子注视着四人，内心各有不同的触动。当天夜里，安吉拉在保姆的陪伴下亦抵达别墅，她的出现让亚丽安娜为其腿疾绷紧的神经再次拉紧，气氛一时僵硬。　　第二天夜里，安吉拉组织别墅里的所有八人进行一场叫做“中国轮盘赌”的问答游戏，分成两组的八人互相提问作答，牵出了各自内心隐藏的秘密。

简介：第53届嘎纳电影节金摄影机奖奖

简介：The lines start with “O Somma Luce” which is the title of the film and also the 67th line of the 33rd canto in “Paradiso” of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” to the end of “Paradiso”.  The film is completed with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations.  This is a recent attempt to combine film with literature.　　The film begins with a black screen and the music of Edgard Varese. The BGM is “Deserts” that was recorded in 1954. After some moments of darkness, the music ends and a middle-aged man sits on a hill, reciting something. He is Giorgio Passerone, an Italian literature professor, and he is reading out of the last part of ‘Paradiso’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Jean-Marie Straub expressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect. The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach, complete the combination of Dante and Varese, which could seem strange. (Lim Kyung Yong)