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諾查丹瑪斯滅亡錄?基因的新世紀

好像一切都很糟糕

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

搭車客

　　為了謀生，一名失業的畢業生在深夜偷偷將一名女性尸體運往西原。在旅途中，他面對了一個充滿不安靈魂的超自然世界、一個他渴望的神秘女孩，以及與他駕駛的救護車有關的黑暗真相。

留校聯盟

 預科學校巴頓學院的老師保羅（保羅·吉亞瑪提 飾）不太受歡迎，不管是學生、老師還是校長，都不太喜歡他，他們覺得他浮夸又僵化。在1970年的圣誕假期，保羅留在了學校監督無法回家的學生。幾天后，只有一個學生留了下來——一個名叫安格斯的15歲搗蛋鬼，他是一個被不良行為破壞的好學生，總是在被開除的邊緣試探。與保羅和安格斯一起留下的還有學校廚師長瑪麗，一個為特權階層的兒子們提供服務的非裔美國婦女，她自己的兒子最近在越南失蹤了。這三個截然不同的失意者組成了一個奇怪的圣誕家庭，在新英格蘭大雪紛飛的兩個星期里，分享著不幸經歷，并意識到他們中沒有人感謝自己的過去。