法国导演情侣组合斯特劳布-于伊耶与1991年将索福克勒斯的希腊悲剧《安提戈涅》搬上银幕，文本上采用了德国浪漫主义诗人荷尔德林的著名翻译，版本上则依照布莱希特40年代的改编，拍摄地点是西西里岛上塞杰斯塔的一座古罗马剧院遗址，拍摄时阳光明媚。影片背后文本的多层厚度赋予了本片以极强的现时性：就在拍摄当年的夏天，美军对伊拉克发起了第一轮进攻。这是一部关于教育公民不服从的作品。

　　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。

　　Patrick Davenant invites a group of friends to visit a theater inside his villa, a place which later reveals itself as sinister. Within a short time, the guests realize that they are trapped in the villa. A merciless killer then begins to murder them one by one.

　　"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

　　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。

　　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。

　　Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.
　　He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.
　　Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.
　　On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.
　　In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.
　　Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.
　　After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.
　　This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.
　　The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.
　　About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."
　　In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.

　　二战期间，一个连环杀手如鬼影般笼罩着德国汉堡，虽然罪行累累，警方却两年来拿他束手无策。一位警探决心重新调查这桩棘手的案件，SS起初还支持他的工作，不日就把这个案子又压了下来，而随后，他企图阻止一起明显不公的审判，拒绝执行命令并因此受到上级处罚，被送往前线。

　　In this delicate, deceptively small-scale drama from award-winning Iranian director Reza Mirkarimi, Youness, an ageing taxi driver, takes a young woman to a hospital at the end of his working day not knowing what awaits him there.

　　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.

　　《望夫石》（La Pierre de l'attente，1991），陳英雄一部21分鐘的短片，曾經獲得1992年里爾國際電影節（Lille International Short and Documentary Film Festival）評審團大獎

　　অরণ্যের দিনরাত্রি

　　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.

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

　　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.

　　本片是阿普三部曲（大路之歌、不屈者、阿普的世界），第一部是与生长的地方的联系，第二部是与父母的联系(在第二部里，阿普的父母相继弃他而去)，第三部是与爱人和孩子的联系。全片最突出的地方，是以一位不满十岁的少年的视线界来观赏人类与大自然生活的共通性。
　　“阿普三部曲”奠定了萨雅吉雷在印度电影发展史上崇高艺术地位。 萨雅吉雷的电影是很难定位他的电影类别及风格。但可确定的是他的电影是印度传世经典之作，具有文学艺术价值，他具有普世价值的电影故事，永远深值人心。
　　日本名导演黑泽明(Akira Kurosawa)对.萨雅吉雷有极中肯的评价：如果我们泠静深沈的观察，了解人类对爱的演进，在萨雅吉雷的电影中你必有所感动和共呜，.萨雅吉雷电影是电影工业的指标。
　　印度电影大师萨蒂亚吉特·雷伊的《阿普三部曲》，曾荣获戛纳电影节最佳人文纪录片奖。三部电影每一部都自成佳作，它们以朴素、强烈的感情和视觉上的独特美感给人以心灵上的震撼，从而确立了Ray在世界顶尖导演中的地位。

　　The play tells the story of a young couple, Cathy (played by Carol White) and Reg (Ray Brooks). Initially their relationship flourishes and they have a child and move into a modern home. When Reg is injured and loses his well-paid job, they are evicted by bailiffs, and they face a life of poverty and unemployment, illegally squatting in empty houses and staying in shelters. Finally, Cathy has her children taken away by social services.

　　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……

　　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...

　　一个九岁男孩痴迷于将头发拉直,从而引起了他辛苦打工的恐同症母亲对他的取向的怀疑。

　　一段恋情因为男方曾经好友的介入出现了裂痕：他们努力拉赞助要前往秘鲁，瞻仰他们的死亡之河。最后在基友与女友之间，长发杀马特男主到底会选择谁呢？

　　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。