生活在巴雷利的年轻姑娘比蒂因为几次失败的相亲而沮丧不已，准备离家出走的她偶然看到一本书《巴雷利的巴菲》，书里的女主描述简直和自己一模一样，不仅性格特点一样，连生活爱好习惯也一样，完全就是照着她写的。比蒂一心想找到写这本书的作者，与这本书作者的邂逅开启了一段寻找爱情的奇妙旅程。当然，虽说寻爱的过程妙趣横生，爱情的得来也不是一帆风顺。有欢笑也有泪水，有轻松也有沉重，不过结局是欢乐一家亲的。

影片由北京西河星汇影业出品，中国导演贾樟柯担任监制，邀请来自巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国、南非五个“金砖国家”的五位女性导演，以女性视角发声，分别以“当代女性情感与社会”为主题拍摄一部电影短片，而五部独立的短片将汇集为一部片名为《半边天》的集锦长片。

甘加·哈吉万达斯(阿莉雅·布哈特 饰)出生于Kathiawar的一个富裕家庭，她的梦想是成为一名宝莱坞女演员。在16岁时，她爱上了拉姆尼克·拉尔(瓦伦·卡普尔 饰)。拉姆尼克答表示甘加可以在他的姨妈希拉的指导下进入电影行业，因此他们私奔到孟买。但是，她的生活从此发生了翻天覆地的变化。因为他以1000卢比将她卖给了卡马提普拉的一家妓院，她不得不开始卖淫。后来，她成了有势力的妓院老板娘甘古拜·卡蒂亚瓦迪，并赢得了她居住地区（卡马提普拉）的选举。唐·拉希姆·拉拉打了一个强奸她的同伙后，成为她的结拜兄弟。甘谷后来爱上了一个年轻的裁缝阿夫萨恩。她曾经倡导妇女权利和性工作者的平等权利。

The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.

电影有两条主线并行推进。 第一条主线讲述的是德维（瑞恰·查达饰）的故事，她与一个小伙子开房遭遇警察“扫黄”，小伙子自杀身亡，父亲帕塔克（桑杰·米什拉饰）成了腐败警官的勒索对象，德维不得不背井离乡。 第二条主线讲述的是迪帕克（维基·科萨尔饰）的故事，他家是从事火葬行业的低种姓世家，但却同高种姓女生沙露（斯薇塔·特瑞帕蒂饰）深深地相爱了，但一场意外又将命运多舛的他推向了深渊。 最后两条主线交会在恒河岸边。社会的矛盾、生活的无奈就这样如长卷般徐徐展开，平淡似水，又感人至深。

马哈维亚（阿米尔·汗 Aamir Khan 饰）曾经是一名前途无量的摔跤运动员，在放弃了职业生涯后，他最大的遗憾就是没有能够替国家赢得金牌。马哈维亚将这份希望寄托在了尚未出生的儿子身上，哪知道妻子接连给他生了两个女儿，取名吉塔（法缇玛·萨那·纱卡 Fatima Sana Shaikh 饰）和巴比塔（桑亚·玛荷塔 Sanya Malhotra 饰）。让马哈维亚没有想到的是，两个姑娘展现出了杰出的摔跤天赋，让他幡然醒悟，就算是女孩，也能够昂首挺胸的站在比赛场上，为了国家和她们自己赢得荣誉。 就这样，在马哈维亚的指导下，吉塔和巴比塔开始了艰苦的训练，两人进步神速，很快就因为在比赛中连连获胜而成为了当地的名人。为了获得更多的机会，吉塔进入了国家体育学院学习，在那里，她将面对更大的诱惑和更多的选择。

被帕塔克（苏尚特·辛格·拉吉普特 饰）寄予厚望的儿子拉加夫高考失利，因无法忍受“失败者”的标签而发生意外。面对病床前丧失信心的儿子，帕塔克讲述了大学时代，自己与朋友们以及前妻玛雅（施拉达·卡普尔 饰），为了完成“失败者”的逆袭，在冠军联赛中“损招”尽出的故事。一段啼笑皆非的青春往事揭开帷幕，他们会实现最初的梦想吗？

在印度的一个中产阶级家庭中，父亲事业有成，母亲热爱跳舞，女儿为性少数群体奋斗，儿子陷入爱河，准备订婚。但在一次节日舞会上，母亲是同性恋的秘密公之于众。知道母亲秘密的一家人该何去何从？儿子的订婚宴又是否会顺利进行？微博@亿万同人字幕分享

纳特（阿米特巴·巴强 Amitabh Bachchan 饰）身为鬼魂，不但无法吓到人类，反而还被常常被小孩子吓得半死，这让他遭到了其他鬼魂们的嘲笑，鬼王决定给纳特最后一次机会，他必须降临人间吓到20个孩子方算完成任务，如果任务失败，那么他就将被驱逐出冥界。 就这样，纳特来到了人间，幸运的是，他第一个遇见的，是一个叫阿克赫罗特（Parth Bhalerao 饰）的胆小孩子，纳特成功的吓到了他，但是，这一人一鬼间，却莫名其妙的建立起了穿越阴阳的友谊。他们的共同敌人是一位名叫巴哈乌（博曼·伊拉尼 Boman Irani 饰）的政客，为了能够当选，他不择手段的给民众洗脑，造成人心惶惶。

干练勇敢的瓦莱丽（娜奥米·沃茨 Naomi Watts 饰）是CIA“打击核扩散”部门的一名秘密特工，正受命在伊拉克调查大规模杀伤性武器的存在可能，然而调查中却根本没发现任何正在进行的核武器计划，这与很多美国官员预期的结果大相径庭。瓦莱丽的丈夫乔（西恩·潘 Sean Penn 饰）是一名外交官，被委托在非洲调查当地是否曾向伊拉克贩卖浓缩铀，而其结果也与瓦莱丽一样，毫无发现相关迹象，随后，乔在《纽约时报》发表了社论，详细阐述了他的调查结果，没想到却引发了一场极其激烈的舌战。瓦莱丽也受到了致命的牵连，她的特工身份很快被泄露给了一名华盛顿时事记者，她在海外的工作变得寸步难行，甚至危及到自身和同事的安全，家人朋友也无法承受地离她而去。这究竟是个偶然还是刻意陷害？面临工作和生活即将崩溃的边缘，瓦莱丽不得不忍辱奋力站起，以单薄的身体对抗这一切背后强大的阴谋……

本片讲述大学刚毕业的神探巴克希，对抗一个想要破坏地球的邪恶天才的故事。主宾国影片《神探巴克希》由印度著名商业电影导演迪巴卡尔·班纳吉指导，融合悬疑、侦探、40年代等元素，塑造了一个印度“夏洛克·福尔摩斯”形象，有着强烈的人格魅力。影片有很强的故事性，动作场面极具想象力，从演员服装、外景设计、汽车道具都做到了一丝不苟。有张力的悬疑剧情能让观众们在2小时的观影时间内目不转睛。

双目失明的钢琴家阿卡什（阿尤斯曼·库拉纳 Ayushmann Khurrana 饰）为了参加国际大赛，平日里通过私人授课赚取经费。事实上他的眼睛完全正常，只不过希望通过这种方式感受不同的生活。因为一场意外，阿卡什结识了美丽的姑娘苏菲（拉迪卡·艾普特 Radhika Apte 饰）。凭借出色的演奏技巧，阿卡什在苏菲父亲经营的西餐馆谋得兼职。他的演奏不仅令食客们倾倒，更虏获了苏菲的心。某天，阿卡什接受过气的影星普拉默（安尔·德霍万 Anil Dhawan 饰）的邀请，登门为对方的妻子西米（塔布 Tabu 饰）演奏庆生，谁知却亲眼目睹了倒在血泊中的普拉默的尸体。惊慌失措的阿卡什假装镇定，虽然暂时骗过了西米及其情夫，但是他的秘密还是慢慢被人戳穿…… 本片改编自2010年的同名法国高分悬疑短片。

沙拉德·内拉尔卡毕生致力于成为一名印度古典音乐歌手，并努力遵循前辈们、大师和父亲的传统理念和教导。但随着时间的流逝，沙拉德开始怀疑他所追求的卓越是否真的现实。

返乡青年Yad在Joris奶奶家工作，两人的相遇天雷勾动地火，一发不可收拾，历经母亲的不谅解、父爱的失落感、旁人的嘲讽，磕磕绊绊后，两人是否仍能相互扶搀？

Based on an unknown Schönberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a not-quite loveless marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man, while he has cast an appraising eye toward an attractive, fashionably dressed acquaintance of his wife’s. Though each dreams, briefly, of leaving the marriage for the excitement and mystery of a new lover, in the end they decide stability and comfort are more important than the fleeting thrill of new romance. Directors Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, who previously collaborated on two other films about music (The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, 1968, and Moses and Aaron, 1975), rely on long fixed shots in austere black-and-white so that the focus remains on the musical brilliance of Schönberg’s atonal score, performed here by 70 musicians. That Schönberg would choose such a relatively lighthearted message for his newly discovered musical language remains a mystery, especially since the conclusion reached by the husband and wife—to stick with the tried and true—seems directly at odds with Schönberg’s own philosophy of composing. It is just this juxtaposition, however, coupled with Straub and Huillet’s faithful presentation, that makes the opera a compelling addition to the Schönberg canon—and the film such a challenging and intriguing experience.

影片拍摄于1967年，是至今为止关于伟大的音乐家巴赫最优秀的影片，片名来源于英国作家同名小说，片中引用的对话、信件都取自巴赫生前的真实文件档案。影片几乎汇集了当时音乐演奏界的精英，如哈侬考特、奥古斯特·温钦格等，具有非常高的史料价值。与我们平日看到肖像画上胖而结实的巴赫完全不同，由著名钢琴演奏家和指挥家古斯塔夫·莱昂哈扮演的巴赫显得瘦小文弱。影片问世后得到了当时影评界的激赏。

"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

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.

改编自卡夫卡未完成的长篇小说《美国》，但其关注的并非真实的美国，更像是没有详细年代的关于美国的寓言。卡尔•罗斯曼由于丑闻而接受其舅舅的邀请搬去美国，然而他无法摆脱欧洲大陆旧式习惯，更糟的是，欧洲的阶级结构无法让他通过自己的双手谋生。这一电影版关注资本主义社会创造的残酷而变幻莫测的阶级关系。同时忠于原著而未添加影片的结局。施特劳布夫妇风格的一贯操作与卡夫卡氛围的完美结合：中景固定机位，面无表情的演员，人物肢体和语言刻意僵硬，强调侧面特写，镜头推进及平移刻意突兀。由此我们可以寻求到改编卡夫卡作品的带实验性的可能。

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。

81-year-old master, Jean-Marie Straub, once again invents and surprises with his latest film. Kommunisten consists of six parts, five of which have been taken from his earlier works. Straub does not aim to be self-reverential, but instead wants to make different blocks (of text, time, and languages) clash so as to highlight invisible elements of feelings and politics. It is a film about human adventure, from the past century to the one ahead. In this project, all the things that the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet have been based on for the past fifty years, find their most raw and recent form.

一如他曾把卡夫卡小說幾乎「抽象」化，也把巴哈女士日記拍得如此地貼近音樂而非文字，Straub的這種風格，除了執拗地延續像MoulletGarrel這些新浪潮好友的「極簡」手法之外，也算是為自己的「藝術」捍衛的極高體現。 看來，我還得回頭去看一下Pedro Costa為「我們時代的電影」系列，為這兩夫妻拍的那一集吧，或許，我才真正能向他們更靠近一些（到底是Costa像他們而找他拍，還是Costa本身確實受到兩夫妻的影響，而得到真髓，所以找來對他們最有研究的創作者來拍呢？這我們就不得而知了）？

兰道尔·朴将首度担任导演，执导路边风景影业新片《短板》。该片改编自艾德里安·托米恩创作的同名漫画，托米恩也将为该片撰写剧本。原著漫画聚焦旧金山湾区的三个年轻亚裔美国都市人——Ben Tanaka、Miko Hayashi与Alice Kim，他们在一系列人际关系中游刃有余，为寻找理想的情感共鸣而穿越全美国。场景设定在咖啡馆、酒吧和卧室里，他们的故事以赤裸裸的坦诚和犀利的幽默相互碰撞与交织。