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Ayşe, Ali, Mehmet and Zeynep are middle-class millennials struggling to make ends meet in Istanbul. Either still living with their parents or hardly getting by without help from their families, they are all beset by similar woes: money crunch, joblessness, social isolation. In view of the world’s horrors that Zeynep enumerates in her diary entries, these are minor problems, ‘slight disasters’, but they are all-consuming, at least to the extent of making them cry in the still of the night. 　　However, Umut Subasi’s first feature, Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster, is not a melodrama. With an appealingly light touch, it diagnoses the malaise of a generation that has run up against a dead end, one whose future prospects are indistinguishable from a game of chance. This is a world where astrology, the lottery and online personality tests compete with visa and job applications as life-shaping elements. 　　Fittingly, the film is structured around chance and coincidence, with its handful of characters encountering each other in every permutation, as though there were no world outside this small social bubble. With self-aware, frontal framing that pins characters to their surroundings and a counterintuitive musical score that turns pathos into humour, Subasi offers a social-media movie without social media, one whose characters are united in their double lives and frustrated desires. 　　源自：https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/almost-entirely-a-slight-disaster

殡葬民俗与悬疑探案交织，借一座老宅、一口古井，揭开三代人缠绕的执念与秘密。影片以阿尔茨海默病家庭为切口，用科学精神破除迷信迷障，在悬疑与反转中传递“生命落幕，爱意不散”的温暖主题。

　　在报馆任职的骠叔（董骠 饰）因为工作的关系带着全家到加拿大工作。一家五口都全身心投入新环境新生活中，骠叔却因得罪上司被解雇了。由于大女儿、二女儿（李丽珍 饰）已开始了学业，他唯有带着妻子骠婶（沈殿霞 饰）与最小的女儿回到香港继续生活，生活却比以前更艰难了。骠婶无意中发现了一张加拿大的头奖彩票，奖金是两千万加币。　　由于不够钱到加国，骠叔硬着头皮向旧上司借。同样受到经济危机的上司设法要夺取骠叔的彩票。骠叔一家顽强对抗，保住了彩票，却无法在领奖时限截止前赶到。　　一家人伤心流泪，悲伤之中发现时间上出现了时差，领奖的时间还没截止。

  第一集中，少女克莉斯蒂（Ashley Laurence 饰）的家庭遭受魔鬼赛诺贝斯的摧残，亲人相继死亡，她本人也被送入精神病院治疗。除了医生助手凯尔（William Hope 饰）外，没人相信克莉斯蒂的离奇故事。当疯狂的医生菲利普•切诺德（Kenneth Cranham 饰）从助手口中得知少女的经历后，他决定将恶魔重新带回人间。业已死亡的继母朱莉（Clare Higgins 饰），在这个变态狂人的喂养下再次复活……

职业拳击手神山英次在菲律宾试图东山再起，却始终未能获得比赛机会，转眼已至不惑之年。就在此时，长期失联的女儿桃子突然造访，命运的齿轮由此转动。失去母亲后无处可去的桃子，漂洋过海来投奔父亲。 　　异国菲律宾的屋檐下，这对父女开始了生涩的同居生活。血缘的羁绊难以轻易填补十余年的空白，两人笨拙地摸索着亲子关系的形状。 　　女儿身上总带着“另一个自己”的影子，这段充满磕绊却暗藏温情的日常，让曾经视野狭隘的神山逐渐学会环视周遭——塬来注视着他的，不止是桃子，还有更多人的目光…… 　　当比赛机会奇迹般降临，英次为赢得属于他们的容身之处毅然踏上擂台。这部以拳击为背景的作品，最终讲述的是关于“父”与“子”共同成长的生命物语。

　　小有名气的建筑师埃文·韦伯（基努·里维斯 Keanu Reeves 饰）事业有成，生活美满。他住在洛杉矶一套亲手设计的别墅中，妻子凯伦（伊格纳西·阿尔曼德 Ignacia Allamand 饰）美艳动人，一双儿女杰克（Dan Baily 饰）和莉莎（Megan Baily 饰）乖巧可爱。某个假日，凯伦驱车带着孩子们外出度假，留下埃文一人在家中工作。瓢泼大雨之夜，艾文突然听到了敲门声。来者是被淋成落汤鸡的女孩贝尔（安娜·德·阿玛斯 Ana de Armas 饰）和吉妮丝（洛伦扎·伊佐 Lorenza Izzo 饰），他们迷失方向，请求埃文提供帮助。两个女孩就像善解人意又诱惑媚人的小妖精，让埃文多少有些把持不住。　　色字头上一把刀，世间哪有从天而降的美食和便宜……