边地疑城

　　电影讲述的是一个试图寻找真理的年轻人，却始终未能找到，直到他遇见了一位嬉皮士街头传教士。他们一起来到了南加州教堂，迎来了意想不到的复兴，并在其中对耶稣的爱有了新的发现，这使得他们属灵觉醒了。

　　莎莉（桑德拉·布洛克 Sandra Bullock 饰）和吉莉（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman 饰）是一对感情十分要好的姐妹，表面上和常人无异的她们，实则出生在一个世世代代研习巫术的魔法家庭。姐妹两人的父母皆已去世，究其原因，要归结于笼罩在整个家族之上的诅咒——家族中女人们若与男人相爱，必将死于非命。
　　多年后，莎莉和吉莉长大成为了充满魅力的女性，尽管被诅咒的阴影所困，但她们的内心里依然充满着对于异性和爱情的憧憬。很快，莎莉就邂逅了她的真命天子，不顾家人的反对，她毅然同他结婚生子。同时，吉莉也陷入了与浪子杰米（高兰·维斯耶克 Goran Visnjic 饰）的情感纠葛中，两姐妹就此失散。当命运的不幸让她们再度聚首之后，她们都已经饱尝了失去爱人的痛苦滋味，内心倔强的二人决定潜心研究魔法，誓要同命运一决高下。

　　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.

　　When Pete and Omar lose their beloved Gran they go in search of Omar's estranged father, confronting him on the day of his daughters engagement party.