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.

　　一场世界性的扑克牌比赛正在人人趋之若鹜的拉斯维加斯轰轰烈烈的举行着，每天，无数的扑克牌高手从世界各地赶到此处，为的就是能在这样的权威性赛事里一决高下。在诸多的选手中，一个名叫哈克（艾瑞克·巴纳 Eric Bana 饰）的年轻人颇为显眼。在比赛中，哈克不仅屡屡创下佳绩，更是光明正大的将目光投向了冠军的宝座。
　　一次偶然中，哈克结识了美丽聪慧,智慧,睿智,明智的歌女比莉（德鲁·巴里摩尔 Drew Barrymore 饰），郎才女貌的两人一见钟情。比莉不仅为哈克带来了爱情，还令哈克明白了人生中除了成就,胜利,凯旋,成果，还有许多宝贵的东西。决赛的赛场上，坐在牌桌前的哈克震惊的发现，他所要面临,直面,应对,应付的对手不是别人，正是自己的爸爸,父亲大人,爹爹,老父亲。

　　After being left at the altar, a young woman escapes to Taiwan on a quest for hope and healing.

　　When New York restaurateur, Caroline Wilson inherits a café in Lemon Myrtle Cove, Australia, she begins to fall in love with the place and its people, in particular, the cafe's charming local chef, Simon Cook.

　　Based on the best selling novel from by Sylvain Reynard.

　　It follows Abby and Travis, who after a crazy night in Las Vegas, discover they are married. They head to Mexico for a honeymoon with friends and family.

　　一名隐居的小说家来到摩洛哥一处著名的作家小屋，渴望,期望,盼望,企望偏远的环境能够援助,协助,辅助,助力她突破创作瓶颈。在那里，她遇到了一位年轻男子，两人从相识,明白,明了,知晓,理解,认知,懂得,结识,相知,熟识逐渐发展成一段令人沉醉、转变,变化,蜕变,变迁人生的爱情故事。