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.
艾伦(范妮莎•L•威廉姆斯 Vanessa Williams 饰)是美国最大武器武器制造公司西历公司的高级职员,她慢慢发现了这加公司的一些黑幕――该公司生产了一种明令禁止的武器并在黑市交易。FBI利用艾伦获得了一些证据,艾伦成了本案的关键证人。鉴于这间公司的势力,证人保护中心派出了法警约翰(阿诺•施瓦辛格 Arnold Schwarzenegger 饰)前往保护艾伦。 当约翰赶到艾伦家时,杀手正在谋杀艾伦。约翰救出了惊魂未定的艾伦,并告诉了她现在情况。安顿好艾伦后,约翰前往酒吧和同伴罗伯特(詹姆斯•凯恩 James Caan 饰)见面,罗伯特告诉约翰因为保护证人的计划泄漏,要重新安排,并要求约翰一起行动。向来都是独立完成任务的约翰起了疑心,他慢慢开始觉得这件事背后的势力并不简单。
A group of teenagers met at an hospital and learned that they need to make friends to deal with the problems of suffering different diseases and living in an hospital.
Set in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, Summer journeys nostalgically through the warm middle-Ural summer with eight-year-old Vadim and his half-sister Christina. They enjoy evening festivities with their older teenage friends by the fire, go on mellow skateboard rides, and have a quiet daytime nap in the garden house. Caressed by the sun and the warmth of his relatives, hidden in the quiet tranquillity of the garden and far away from the cruelty of the outside world, Vadim enjoys his childhood days. Acting as a serene lullaby that mimics the movements of a gentle breeze, Summer provides warmth, joy and solace, offering hope and strength for the future.