主演:锦鲤,刘晴,赵双,楚越,阎么么,宣晓鸣
主演:马林·格里戈利,朱迪思·斯泰特,马克里娜·巴勒迪亚努,奥尔索利亚·摩尔多万,拉兹·安德烈,约瑟夫·比罗,奥维迪乌·克里桑,佐尔坦·迪克,切拉塞拉·约西费斯库,安德烈·芬蒂,巴克斯·米克洛什,阿林·潘克,Victor,Benderra,Amitha,Jayasinghe,Gihan,Edirisinghe,Nuwan,Karunarathna,Kovacs,Levente,Jr.,Varga,Csilla,Orban,Attila,Boros-Piroska,Klara
主演:Mark,Brandon,Thomas,Cadrot,Heather,Morris,丽莎·林娜
主演:阿旦,糖醋里脊,诗福
主演:张成杰,陈倩,王远基,蒋华,李丰道,金然,肖梦婷,钟宏宇,李卓然,张艺雯,汪圣鹏
主演:锦鲤,刘晴,赵双,楚越,阎么么,宣晓鸣
主演:李懿
主演:卓在勋,林元熙,李尚敏,金俊浩,宋旻浩,表志勋
主演:荣小洋,张洋,唐泽宗,许子尧,吴浩,周杭,王佳玥,王辛,王致博,李晓宝,丁传慧,丁莹莹,王晶
主演:王大伟,蘭雨馨,柳知萧,冷泉月夜,音匣老鬼,森中人
主演:秦基周,魏嘏隽,朴勋,吉海妍,金惠奫
主演:小林由美子,林玉绪,广桥凉,一龙斋贞友,稻田彻,龟井芳子,兴梠里美,真柴摩利,森川智之,村濑步,楢桥美纪,斋藤彩夏,佐久间玲,Chie,Satô,山口太郎
主演:津田宽治,窗佑佳,木津翼
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.