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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

　　东京，一个世界知名的大城市。 Sarah (何超仪 饰) 与男友分手后，来到此地欲求购买房生产，并度过一个短暂而宁静的假期，但一切事与愿违。由于美国总统的突然到访东京，原定的酒店已满。　　房地产公司将她安置在一座非常破旧废弃令人毛骨悚然的私人民宿 “minipaku” 中 ，当Sarah入住时，她发现它是由一位老妇人（白川和子 饰）经营的。她在那里的第一个晚上感到十分不安和可怕，噩梦连连，并且病了起来，只能被迫留下来，更令她意外地发现了一具正在被寄生虫吞噬的完整骨骼。警察局的高级警司（高桥和也 饰）接手调查，也发现这家民宿牵涉多宗连环离奇失踪案件，怪事连连，警司也未能为Sarah破解。　　这座有着非常神秘力量和不明历史的房子，与Sarah有着某种联系。当 “minpaku” 的灯熄灭时，可怕而令人不安的景象笼罩着她，它们变得越来越真实。一场又一场可怕而离奇的噩梦，令人不知道这是开始还是结束，似乎一切都是安排好的。

　　青年休·麦克艾利斯特（Brandon Kyle Peters 饰）按照未婚妻未婚妻劳瑞·苏利文（Danielle Lilley 饰）的意愿，在远离喧嚣都市的僻静角落买了一座数十款长的大房子。乔迁当日，劳瑞对新房子既满意又惊奇，稍后没多久，马克（Jose Miguel Vasquez 饰）、安柏（Emily Cutting 饰）、肯尼斯（Christopher de Padua 饰）等朋友驱车前来，准备为小两口开一个盛大的乔迁派对。马可他们百无聊赖，四处闲逛，结果强行进入一个无人居住的旧房子。青年男女百无禁忌，四处闲逛，根本不知自己已经惹到了什么。夜幕降临，喜欢热闹的男女们纷纷云集到休的新居，大开狂欢派对。喜欢肯尼斯的女孩独自落寞地再次来到那栋空房子，谁知却被隐藏在这里的恐怖之人残忍杀害。　　那边厢狂欢无度，这边厢血腥杀戮的闸门缓缓开启……

该片以诗圣杜甫创作凤凰台为引，讲述了三位甘肃成县人士回乡参加乡贤大会时，揭开了一段深埋于记忆长河的往事。