阿迪勒·阿赫塔

　　Last at the Festival with 2017’s rural noir Dark River, a selection in the Platform programme, writer-director Clio Barnard returns to the Bradford, West Yorkshire setting of her earlier films for this tumultuous, fiercely affecting midlife love story.　　A bundle of good humour and nervous energy, Ali (Adeel Akhtar) is a British Pakistani working-class landlord who forges close bonds with his tenants. One day, while picking up one of his tenants’ children from school, he offers a lift to Ava (Claire Rushbrook), an Irish-born teacher and single mother of five. They bond almost instantly through their love of music, though Ali favours the high energy of Buzzcocks and hip-hop while Ava takes refuge in the quieter comforts of Bob Dylan and Karen Dalton. Despite their divergent backgrounds, differences in their stages of life, and the colour of their skin, despite the fact of Ali’s failing marriage and Ava’s fraught relationship with her adult and adolescent children, each finds themself irresistibly drawn to the other. But can their mutual desire transcend a barrage of personal obstacles?　　Inspired by people Barnard encountered while making her acclaimed features The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, Ali & Ava is a film that feels profoundly rooted in lived experience, blending a tender emotional complexity with an at times bracing depiction of trauma and grief. Akhtar and Rushbrook’s finely hued performances speak to the setting’s cultural diversity and tribal loyalties while yielding a vulnerability that’s alternately heart-wrenching and joyous. Their story serves as a reminder that it is sometimes the least likely connections that are the ones most worth pursuing.

　　潘（莱维·米勒 Levi Miller 饰）自小失去了父母，生长在孤儿院中，是那里典型的“问题儿童”。潘热爱自由，脑袋里都是稀奇古怪天马行空的念头，调皮捣蛋惹事闯祸的总是他，让孤儿院的院长很是头痛。　　某天夜里，潘在意外之中来到了名为“梦幻岛”的神奇世界中，在这里，有海盗、战士，还有只曾在童话书里看见过的精灵。在梦幻岛，潘结识了女战士虎莲公主（鲁妮·玛拉 Rooney Mara 饰）和虎克船长（加内特·赫德兰 Garrett Hedlund 饰），他们在等待着一位佩戴牧笛项链的神秘人物的到来，这位神秘人将会率领他们，同邪恶的黑胡子海盗（休·杰克曼 Hugh Jackman 饰）展开激烈的斗争。