当初因为宗教问题，安吉拉（艾米丽·沃森 Emily Watson 饰）和丈夫的婚姻并没有得到亲友的赞许。如今他们已经有好几个孩子，可是在美国生活得并不如意，贫穷折磨再加上不久前的丧子之痛，这家人决定搬回家乡爱尔兰，以祈求在那里获得富裕一点的生活。 　　事情并没有他们想象的那样顺利，在家乡，他们仍然遭遇着亲友冷眼，开始了艰难为继的新生活。每当丈夫没有勇气干些琐碎活扛起家庭重担时，是安吉拉义无反顾的担负起一切又脏又累又卑微的活儿。命运一次次给这个坚强的母亲以打击。她的一对双胞胎孩子相继去世，丈夫到英国谋生却没能改善困窘的家境，安吉拉从不放弃地寻求救助，并教会儿子弗兰克（乔·布林Joe Breen 饰）生存的尊严，母亲的光辉在弗兰克的一生里都不会褪色。

父亲远在澳大利亚工作，安吉拉下定决心要实现她发自内心的愿望：让家人在圣诞节团聚。

父亲远在澳大利亚工作，安吉拉下定决心要实现她发自内心的愿望：让家人在圣诞节团聚。

In this short film of Cowan Court, Rivers has turned his camera onto the interactions between architecture and landscape within which the students of Churchill College, University of Cambridge live and work.

Robert, a jaded middle-aged New Yorker, goes to Serbia to make quick cash by 　　marrying someone for U.S. immigration papers, but the plan goes awry when 　　the promised cash never arrives. At the same time, a young Serbian 　　immigrant, Branko, struggles in a never forgiving New York, desperately 　　trying to bring his girlfriend from Serbia to USA. 　　AWARDS 　　Tribeca International Film Festival 2009 　　Best New York Narrative Award 　　Skip City D - Cinema Festival 2009 　　Japan – Special Jury Award 　　SOFEST 2009 　　SERBIA – Darko Lungulov - BEST DIRECTOR AWARD 　　SOFEST 2009 　　SERBIA – Mirjana Karanovic – BEST FEMALE ROLE AWARD 　　Hoboken International Film Festival 2009 　　USA - David Thornton – BEST ACTOR AWARD 　　Cinema City Festival 2009 　　SERBIA - Mirjana Karanovic – BEST FEMALE ROLE AWARD 　　Karlovy Vary 2009 　　CZECH REPUBLIC - VARIETY CRITICS CHOICE 　　（from official site ）

Ashes contemplates love, pleasure, and the destruction of memory. The surroundings of everyday life are shared with extreme intimacy. For Apichatpong, Thailand, while full of beauty, is slowly collapsing into darkness. 　　“King Kong rarely barked. She had been with us since she was three months old. Every night she slept and looked around in her dreams. 　　We thought that our spirits were enriched by the fertile soil and the greenest leaves and the rarest insects and the abundance of humility. But came a day in March we woke up from our dream. The sky wept ashes. The rotten ground trembled as baby worms rose to taste the gray snow. Across the mountains the light of devotion shone and blinded our souls. The darkness was so bright we wept and shouted in silence. And we woke up again, and again. 　　We united like multiple King Kongs with no sound. Every heartbeat a baby was born with her mouth shut tight like a touch of two stones. With pleasure we lived in hope, and hoped to never wake up. A land of Nothing. We slept. We smiled. We ran."

Ashes contemplates love, pleasure, and the destruction of memory. The surroundings of everyday life are shared with extreme intimacy. For Apichatpong, Thailand, while full of beauty, is slowly collapsing into darkness. 　　“King Kong rarely barked. She had been with us since she was three months old. Every night she slept and looked around in her dreams. 　　We thought that our spirits were enriched by the fertile soil and the greenest leaves and the rarest insects and the abundance of humility. But came a day in March we woke up from our dream. The sky wept ashes. The rotten ground trembled as baby worms rose to taste the gray snow. Across the mountains the light of devotion shone and blinded our souls. The darkness was so bright we wept and shouted in silence. And we woke up again, and again. 　　We united like multiple King Kongs with no sound. Every heartbeat a baby was born with her mouth shut tight like a touch of two stones. With pleasure we lived in hope, and hoped to never wake up. A land of Nothing. We slept. We smiled. We ran."

贵族少年拉法尔在一次狂欢节上，结识了年轻美貌的姑娘盖列娜，两人一见钟情，并偷偷幽会，两人的私情被家人发现，拉法尔被父亲赶出家门。几年以后，拉法尔在哥哥好友的介绍下参加了秘密组织，见到了昔日情人盖列娜，盖列娜已嫁给秘密组织领导人。尽管如此，她仍深爱着拉法尔。一天夜里，两人被强盗抓住，盖列娜为保全自己，跳下深渊，拉法尔得救后被误认为是强盗，关押了很久后被放出，对生活失去了信心，后来拉法尔在好友的帮助下重新振作起来，并参加了波兰军团。 　　本片根据波兰著名批判现实主义作家热罗姆斯基（Stefan Zeromski ）的同名长篇小说改编，获戛纳电影节金棕榈提名。瓦依达在这个题材中所表现出的兴趣所在是十分明显的：他试图追索波兰民族意识的形成过程。此片引起了波兰知识界的热烈评论，许多人文科学界的权威和一些著名作家都发表了自己的看法，再此之前，几乎从来没有一部电影可使知识界产生如此广泛的反应。

贵族少年拉法尔在一次狂欢节上，结识了年轻美貌的姑娘盖列娜，两人一见钟情，并偷偷幽会，两人的私情被家人发现，拉法尔被父亲赶出家门。几年以后，拉法尔在哥哥好友的介绍下参加了秘密组织，见到了昔日情人盖列娜，盖列娜已嫁给秘密组织领导人。尽管如此，她仍深爱着拉法尔。一天夜里，两人被强盗抓住，盖列娜为保全自己，跳下深渊，拉法尔得救后被误认为是强盗，关押了很久后被放出，对生活失去了信心，后来拉法尔在好友的帮助下重新振作起来，并参加了波兰军团。 　　本片根据波兰著名批判现实主义作家热罗姆斯基（Stefan Zeromski ）的同名长篇小说改编，获戛纳电影节金棕榈提名。瓦依达在这个题材中所表现出的兴趣所在是十分明显的：他试图追索波兰民族意识的形成过程。此片引起了波兰知识界的热烈评论，许多人文科学界的权威和一些著名作家都发表了自己的看法，再此之前，几乎从来没有一部电影可使知识界产生如此广泛的反应。

94年柏林电影节最佳动画短片金熊奖，库科最著名的作品之一。