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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

 19世纪热情洋溢的墨西哥小镇，吉普赛女郎叶塞尼亚（杰奎琳·安德瑞 Jacqueline Andere 饰）和伙伴们畅快淋漓歌舞，她高傲聪慧，宛若一株带刺的玫瑰，由于时常遭到白人的歧视，因此叶塞尼亚偶尔会偷钱惩治这帮势力眼，却不知道自己拥有怎样曲折的身世。某天，叶塞尼亚在酒馆算命，结识了自信满满的白人军官奥斯瓦尔多（Jorge Lavat 饰）。一来二去的交往，这对有情男女坠入爱河。爱情的甜蜜与苦涩，令他们饱受折磨。勇敢的奥斯瓦尔多请求吉普赛头人同意他们的结合，在叶塞尼亚外婆的点拨和撮合下，这个狂野女郎最终如愿和奥斯瓦尔多结为夫妇。幸福总是短暂易逝，叶塞尼亚和丈夫迎来了长时间的生离死别，他们的爱情也经历了严峻的考验……

　　底层捕快薛不疑（刘峰超 饰）因不谙世故遭同僚排挤，憋屈十年。一桩赈灾银盗窃案他沦为替罪羊。绝境中，他受老师黄士宁（淳于珊珊 饰）搭救，与师弟李震（袁福福 饰）再度合作，然而钱外有钱官外有官，他被迫成为高官手中的“犬牙”……在这黑暗世道，他是会选择做一只听话的鹰犬，还是挣脱这巨 手成为啄天之鹰？

1982年，英国。一位年轻有抱负的日英混血作家准备书写其母亲——1952年，英国。战后移英的日本妇人悦子，因长女自杀而忆起在长崎的最后一段时光。悦子与妇人幸子相遇，幸子也准备和女儿出国，对新生活翘首以待。然而，作家在拼凑线索及母亲的记忆碎片时，渐渐发现母亲的记忆与现实相左.…..石川庆改编诺贝尔文学奖得主石黑一雄早年同名原著，双线刻划战后女性挣扎求存之境，表面平静实质波澜不休，折射出大时代下压抑而沉重的集体记忆与痛苦。