朋友的妈妈：幕后故事

　　「为什么大家讨厌警察？」男孩询问母亲。身为警察的史黛芬妮，负责的却是警察暴力与失职案件调查。2018年，一名青年随亲友来到巴黎参与街头抗议，却因警方开枪，导致永久性脑部损伤。家人提出指控，警方却矢口否认，关键证据亦是不足。内外压力夹攻之下，史黛芬妮仍奋力调查，调阅摄像头比对、还原警员动线，越逼近真相之际，同僚的敌意也越发强烈⋯⋯

　　3年前，话剧老师林晓阳（林嘉欣饰）的弟弟被绑架，案件交由高级督察何宛真（刘若英饰）及智叔（张兆辉饰）负责，可是在追捕的过程中，疑犯因争吵坠楼身亡，林晓阳就此埋下了怨恨。　　三年后，林晓阳患病的丈夫（赵会南饰）病情加重，需要一千万才能有治好的希望，林晓阳动了绑架富豪王森（郭 涛饰）儿子的念头。多日来林晓阳跟她从尼泊尔认识的同伙跟踪小孩动向，后来决定在一个傍晚下手。刚好案子也是有何宛真接手，就让林晓阳有了报复的心理，何宛真为了救回孩子只好服从，可她万万没有想到，原来王森的儿子，跟自己的儿子调换了衣服穿，被林晓阳绑架的正是何宛真的儿子。　　两个女人，都为着心爱的亲人在绑架案中斗志斗勇，展开激烈的较量。

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

　　德华（刘德华饰）喜欢打牌，以打牌为生的他出名好牌技好牌品，与他相恋多年的咏琪（梁咏琪饰）因为牌品差，始终没能与德华结为连理，令她顿足。德华的弟弟天乐（古天乐饰）知道哥哥要以打牌为生养活患有痴呆症的母亲和正在读书的自己，决定跟青云（刘青云饰）打牌比试，谁知连连落败。　　一次牌局中，咏琪不甘被德华以牌品的问题多次推搪婚约，便咀咒他从此“一世摸烂牌”，跟着同样拜师不成的青云离开了。　　咀咒真的灵验了，使德华家道中落，但一向乐观的他深信自己的“好朋友”会回来的。在弟弟公司举行的麻将大赛中一路稳打稳扎，与青云再次对垒，最后能否获胜呢？