小十三 Little Thirteen (2012)

 Exploring the friendship between renowned preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin, and Whitefield's impact during the pivotal Great Awakening religious movement.

　　20世纪末，波黑战火笼罩的巴尔干地区。聋哑少女安吉尔（罗茜·戴伊 Rosie Day 饰）目睹了亲人邻居被武装分子残忍杀害的一幕，在此之后她也失去自由，与数名同龄女孩被掳至暴徒维克托（凯文·霍华斯 Kevin Howarth 饰）所盘踞的地狱之所。女孩们被迫沦为性奴，饱受摧残与折磨，生命卑微有如在暴风雨中摇曳的烛火。身处无声世界的安吉尔似乎得到上天微薄的怜惜，她每天的工作便是穿梭于各个房间，为女孩们擦拭血迹，注射药物，缓解疼痛，小小年纪却见识了人世间最残酷的景象。惨无人道且防守严密的人间炼狱，安吉尔决定带着姐妹们逃出生天。当杀母仇人格伦突然来到此地，一切走向失控的边缘……　　本片荣获2013年葡萄牙国际奇幻电影节影评人选择奖。

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

　　正值青春期的少女艾玛（苏菲·瓦瓦希尔 Sophie Vavasseur 饰）因小事与父母发生争吵，继而用玻璃碎片割破自己的手掌。在此之后，父母子女的关系虽有所松动，但是新的危机已悄悄展开。艾玛是不是会做出些奇怪的举止，这令父母异常担心，于是只得将艾玛留在家中接受教育。期间他们尝试带女儿去看具有催眠本领的心理医生，谁知医生最终猝死艾玛的膝上。艾玛自感自己已被魔鬼附体，因此不顾崇尚科学的父母的反对，执意求助于因驱魔失败而被革除神职的舅舅基斯（道·布莱德利 Doug Bradley 饰）。　　基斯似乎渐渐证实了艾玛的猜测，而她体内那股邪恶的力量也变得越来越强大……

　　某座城市的验尸房，艾米（丹妮尔·哈丽丝 Danielle Harris 饰）行色匆匆，准备参加亲朋为她准备的生日派对。而就在此时，惨无人道的大屠杀在城中另一个角落发生，九人遇害，而屠戮他们的凶手雅克布·古德奈特（Glen Jacobs 格兰·“凯恩”·雅克布 饰）也在救护车上咽下最后一口气。眼看派对泡汤，艾米只得和同事赛斯（卡吉-埃里克·埃里克森 Kaj-Erik Eriksen 饰）打起精神准备接收送来的尸体。而就在此时，艾米的哥哥威尔（格里斯顿·霍尔特 Greyston Holt 饰）带着凯拉（切兰·西蒙斯 Chelan Simmons 饰）、塔玛拉（凯瑟琳·伊莎贝尔 Katharine Isabelle 饰）等好友潜入验尸房，精心为妹妹准备了盛大欢快的派对。　　胆大妄为的男女们纵情歌舞，却不料雅各布已悄然醒来……

　　Two sisters living separate lives on different continents are reunited on a Mediterranean Island. The two barely have time to bond and revive family ties as Kate, the elder, meets a group of locals and agrees to an exciting ride on a hot air balloon. But disaster strikes and as the result of a freak accident, the balloon is carried far out to sea. Their cell phones out of range, and the balloon running out of gas, Kate and her friends are battling for their lives. While, back on land, the younger sister, Liz, has become an unwanted "material witness" to a crime. Matters then take a dramatic twist, one that will mark their lives forever.