贝茜?布鲁姆（凯特温斯莱 Kate Winslet饰）是纽约某新闻杂志的知名记者，她接到了一个任务是去采访一名死刑犯大卫?戈尔（凯文?斯帕西 Kevin Spacey 饰）。戈尔的罪名是强奸并谋杀了康丝坦斯?哈拉维，并将于周五下午6点被处以死刑，那么布鲁姆将要采访并记录的就是戈尔人生最后的三天，而此前戈尔拒绝了一切采访。布鲁姆起初对这个任务很不以为然，但在和戈尔的接触过程中，她发现一切并非表面呈现的那么简单，于是布鲁姆决定用仅剩的三天开始寻找真相……电影《大卫戈尔的一生》的导演艾伦?帕克凭借该片提名2003年柏林国际电影节金熊奖。

该片改编自真实事件，讲述一名年轻的伊拉克警察被尼尼微的特种部队从交火中救出，此后加入了一支10人小队，他们筹划游击行动，要从ISIS手中夺回自己的家园。

The Deserted Archipelago was my first independently directed and produced film. The film won the Grand Prix at the Nyon International Film Festival and garnered considerable attention both overseas and in Japan. The film follows an extremely simple story of a plain boy who matures into manhood while constantly manipulated by nuns. But woven into this narrative are my own experiences and the history of postwar Japan as well as a series of fantasies. The result is a multifaceted and multilayered objet, the birth of a newly sur-realistic filmmaking. On August 15th, the day the war ended, I was in the third year of primary school. That day, when the reality that I had known turned completely upside down, I was saddled with the trauma of no longer being able to believe in anything. Searching here and there for some kind of spiritual salvation, I finally found the existentialism of Albert Camus. From there, I was able to build up my own kind of existentialism and this film is best understood as based in that “Kanai Katsu Existentialism.” The film was praised by European film scholars Max Tessier and Tony Rayns and was screened as part of “Eiga: 25 Years of Japanese Film,” a special program at the 1984 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

本片获得《青年电影手册》2011年年度纪录片大奖。本片获得阿姆斯特丹国际纪录片电影节的VPRO IDFA奖。1990年，家住四川广安区回龙村的张昌华（张昌华 饰）和陈素琴（陈素琴 饰）两夫妻为了能让家里过上更好的日子，也为了让张琴（张琴 饰）和张阳（张阳 饰）姐弟能 接受良好的教育，有朝一日可以摆脱像他们一样在农村的艰苦生活，毅然离开一对幼年的双子女去广州打工。他们辛苦的赚钱往家里寄钱，几年才能回去和家人团聚一次过一个年。平时只能姥姥生活的姐弟对他们早已产生了生疏感和冷漠。但女儿张琴像很多这个年纪的叛逆少年一样，不听劝告毅然退学，重蹈了父母的覆辙，从村里离家去广东打工……