一个快乐的夏天

好像一切都很糟糕

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

惑星大战争

　　西暦1988年。人類は謎のUFO群の襲来により危機に瀕していた。人類の存亡をかけ、南海の秘密基地で建造されていた国連宇宙防衛艦・轟天は発進する。侵略者の正体は、太陽系から2万2千光年離れたメシエ13と呼ばれる球状星団・恒星ヨミの第三惑星人だった。彼らは年老いた母星そっくりの地球を征服すべく、指揮官ヘルのもとに金星に侵略の前線基地を築いていた。敵ヘルファイターとの激しい戦闘をくり返し、金星に向かう轟天。しかし、その前に敵の超努級戦艦・大魔艦が立ちふさがる……。

天竺蓝调

　　年轻貌美的美国科学家琳达（布丽·拉尔森 饰），被公司总裁葛根（唐纳·苏德兰 饰）派往印度销售她所培育的“9号稻米”。初次来到印度的琳达饱受文化冲击，还好有当地年轻官僚威廉的协助，让她可以在那边安心地边研究边销售。此时，她遇到一位因为缴不出学费而辍学的大学生罗杰（乌特卡什·安邦德卡尔 饰），两人在研究与争执过程当中陷入热恋，罗杰也帮她发现被派往印度的丑陋内幕……原来她想要帮助印度农民的研究成果，竟不知不觉地被无良的葛根滥用，即将对农民造成毁灭性的伤害…琳达该要如何阻止这场灾难？而她与罗杰的异国恋又将会开花结果吗？

拍得不错

　　由五個單元故事組成的GOOD TAKE，是香港電影新一代導演的創新作品，包括導演曾國祥《水泥》，講述警員9413（周柏豪）前往報案地點查案，最後只留下電話鈴聲卻不見其人，令人毛骨悚然；導演黃智亨的《囍宴》，一個小孩跟著跟爸爸（張兆輝飾）一起前赴媽媽新婚囍宴的故事，童真與成年人的無奈都盡在心頭；導演黃進的《Good Take》，透過甘草演員泰勒(盧海鵬飾)的生活是向資深電影從業員致敬的故事；導演楊龍澄的《不一定》，以型格對比色彩重構暴力血腥鏡頭；導演黃精甫的《嚇鬼》，Charlene（蔡卓妍飾）挑戰鬼屋一夜遊，遇上中國殭屍、長髮貞子和辮子姑娘，過程又驚又笑！五個故事各自有著不同風格及不同戲味！

致我的青春