Boatman is Gianfranco Rosi's account of a boattrip along the Ganges river, together with his helmsman Gopal. They pass tourists and Indians who are bathing, working or meditating. In a series of small portraits Rosi depicts life on and at the banks of India's sacred river. Central theme of this film is the imagination of the endless circle of life and death, which is rooted in the lives of the Indian people, and which is convincingly manifested in the way they bid the dead farewell.

萨缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治的这首叙事诗由于加入了模拟的还有真实的一些图像，又重新焕发了生机，这些图像也给了这首名作新的令人惊喜的特色。这部在视觉上意义重大的电影大作是由Michael Redgrave爵士担任旁白，用启发性的语音述说这一文学经典。整部作品分两部分表现。第一部分是萨缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治的自传，记述了他无依无靠的童年，以及他在18世纪的英国尝试练马师的工作却一事无成的经历。影片还记述了他染上鸦片和他一些简要的经历，还包括了他，威廉姆和华兹华斯三人间的友谊。正是受这几位好友的启发，柯勒律治写了《老水手之歌》。第二部分独树一帜地把柯勒律治的诗形象化，引领我们进行了一次陌生孤独的航海旅行，时间和空间在旅行中似乎都变得如想象一般自由不受限制。

明治末年，大正初期，十市是一名将家安在河边的船夫，他每天的工作是划船接送形形色色的人过河。为了方便村民的出行，一座横跨河两岸的桥即将落成。村民兴高采烈地讨论着桥落成后的便利，只有十市对此有着复杂的感觉。某日，他从河里救了一名受伤的神秘年轻女子。无处可去的她最终只能返回十市家中，这次邂逅开始改变了十市的生活。小田切让首次执导长片，入选威尼斯电影节威尼斯日单元，浅野忠信、苍井优、永濑正敏亦有参与演出。

Maria, an enigmatic young drifter, takes over the job of piloting a tiny ferry in a small secluded village after the mysterious death of the former ferryman, and one night gives a ride to a wounded man. Later, when Death comes to claim his life, she tries to save him by engaging the Grim Reaper in a delirious dance of doom. Can true love triumph in the face of certain destiny?