原幹恵 – 大切な人は、すぐ側にいた

　　A skilled magician recruits an unlikely team for a daring heist to acquire a valuable gem. As they navigate their intertwined histories and escalating stakes, they must master deception, confront vulnerabilities.

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

　　陽光明媚的日子里，約翰（丹尼爾·佐瓦特 Daniel Zovatto 飾）和凱蒂（邦妮·戴尼森 Bonnie Dennison 飾）、麥特（克里斯·克羅伊 Chris Conroy 飾）、齊克（格里芬·紐曼 Griffin Newman 飾）、西蒙（約翰尼·奧希尼 Jonny Orsini 飾）和黛比（Mackenzie Rosman 飾）等五名好友，驅車來到一個毗鄰湖邊的僻靜所在進行他們畢業前的紀念派對。他們劃著小船來到湖中央，曾經有著恐怖記憶的約翰對這片水域頗多忌憚，但是他膽大妄為的伙伴們則競相跳入水中，享受戲水的快樂時光。誰知好景不長，先是小船遭到猛烈碰撞，接著黛比被一條怪魚咬傷致死。　　年輕人的噩夢由此展開，他們的磨難還未就此結束，嗜血獵手漸次向他們逼近……

　　品性憨直，風趣幽默，農村吃百家飯長大的孤兒石二狗，在城市打工意外獲得彩票大獎五百萬，之后，他風風火火的回到老家，借著酒勁給鄉親們發錢，并且還想憑這五百萬娶村長的女兒石金鳳，但是卻遭到石金鳳的嘲笑，于是他發奮要為老家人民做點大事——修路，將修路的工程包給了金鳳城里的男朋友胡大光，以這樣顯示他的大度并期望博得金鳳的歡喜，可是卻由于經驗的缺失和文化知識的不足，被胡大光給蒙混了，手上的錢都讓胡大光騙走了，連答應給村里修小學的錢也被騙的一光二凈，二狗又成了一個身無分文的窮光蛋。 二狗有錢的時候，在眾多人中招聘了韓美華作為村里學校的老師，現在二狗沒錢了，本以為韓美華會離開石頭村，但是由于二狗的善良和執著，早已深深的打動了美麗聰明的城里女孩韓美華。韓美華利用自己的經驗和智慧聯手以前一直瞧不起二狗的村民們，為二狗打贏了官司。最后在韓美華的指引和村民們的幫助下，石二狗憑借自己堅韌的毅力，白手起家，帶領百姓發家致富開創了嶄新的事業。