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Ay?e, 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

　　阿坤（卡文英瑪諾泰 飾）是個孤兒，由村里強大的薩滿萊穆養大。他受雇驅魔，卻偷偷進行黑魔法儀式，想提煉尸油賺錢迎娶心愛的女孩蘇伊，沒想到這觸怒了鬼魂、招致報復。此時蘇伊恰巧來找他，究竟阿坤能否以所學和信仰幫助自己和身邊的人死里逃生？

　　20年前，社會主義國家南斯拉夫解體，奉行主義的更迭并未改變東歐這片多災多難土地的命運。戰火持續，人民罹難。時至今日，硝煙仍未從這里散去。卡蘿爾（祖兒·費利克斯 Zoé Félix 飾）、馬提亞（埃瑞克·薩文 Eric Savin 飾）、薩米爾（Arié Elmaleh 飾）是來自法國的救援小組成員。在完成任務后，他們驅車返回祖國。然而必經之路上有士兵把守，為了不浪費時間，薩米爾建議抄小路前進。這一決定將他們引入一條黑暗之途，行至半路，三人被一群全副武裝的不明身份者綁架。在此后的數日內，他們全被關在不見天日的籠子里。　　對于對方的動機卡蘿爾他們全然不知，只有無盡的恐懼伴隨左右，而死神的腳步也在慢慢逼近……

馬諾哈拉·K在13歲時就憑借在影片《鐵路少年》中的出色表演榮獲印度國家電影獎最佳兒童演員獎。如今，二十出頭的馬諾哈拉初執導筒，將女作家索尼婭·S的獲獎自傳小說搬上銀幕，講述了一個白化病女孩的成長之路。片中，來自貧困家庭的索尼婭因為白化病在學校受到歧視和敵意，父親置若罔聞、母親有心但無力，她只能依靠自己。導演并沒有向索尼婭投去同情目光，而是帶著一定距離感去呈現她的處境，成功塑造了一個勇敢、樂天的女孩如何接納自己并讓白化病這個“缺點”成為特點。