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.

　　Anne嫁给了小镇的牧师，三十年过去，她觉得她的生活和婚姻持续地缩小中。一次机缘之下，她与「大师」有了接触，她发掘了新的力量，想要活得比以往更大胆。Anne在全新的自己和过往的自己中不断拉扯，死亡数字增加，Jakob意识到他必须为了老婆而战。

　　A man from London comes to a small remote village in Serbia to look after the cemetery. He starts to have nightmarish visions and suspects the friendly villagers have a more sinister intention with him.

　　根据真实的故事改编，《浴火鸟》是一部冷战惊悚片，背景设定于1970年代的苏联。故事讲述，谢尔盖（Sergey，一名陷入困境的应征者，他的最好的朋友路易莎（Luisa），一位迷人有野心的基地指挥官秘书，以及一个胆大的年轻战斗机飞行员罗曼，三者之间如何形成危险的三角恋爱关系。在好奇心的驱使下，他们开启了禁忌之恋，在暧昧与欺骗之间，爱情与友谊的界限开始模糊。随着罗曼的职业生涯受到威胁，谢尔盖被迫面对自己的过去，而路易莎（Luisa）也努力使家人团聚。在围城之内，他们冒着失去自由和生命的危险，面对克格勃不断升级的调查，他们之间的命运会走向何方？

　　It's the Jonas Brothers like you've never seen them before - getting a roasting they'll never forget.

　　一个迷失方向和害怕的人在医院的房间里醒来，发现他是一个全脸移植的接受者。他被奇怪的倒叙所困扰，没有记忆，也没有访客，当他们把他从医院放出来时，他毫无准备。当一个神秘的红发女人苏菲和他成为朋友时，生活就变得更奇怪了。突然，一个蒙面人跟踪他，他的朋友抛弃了他，陌生人给了他奇怪的眼神。他心急如焚地出去喝酒，结果却和一个没脸的男人发生了口角！现在他必须调查到底发生了什么事，谁在跟踪他，以免为时已晚。。。

　　Creation Stories tells the unforgettable tale of infamous Creation Records label head Alan McGee and of how one written-off young Glaswegian upstart rose to irrevocably change the face of British culture.

　　Jimmy Carr finds humour in the darkest of places in this stand-up comedy special. This special features Jimmy's trademark dry, sardonic wit and includes some jokes which Jimmy calls "career enders".

　　In this all-star ensemble featuring MJFF alum and Golden Globe nominee Lainie Kazan, Academy Award nominee Renée Taylor (The Nanny, The Producers, How to Be A Latin Lover), and produced by Joel Zwick (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), a Hasidic Rabbi (Jos Laniado) struggles with his beliefs in order to realize his dream of dancing the tango. Moshe Yehuda, a Hasidic Rabbi and amateur Hora dancer, enters a big, televised Tango competition to save his Hebrew school from bankruptcy. There is only one problem: due to his orthodox religious principles, he is not allowed to touch a woman! At odds with his wife and five kids, the Grand Rabbi of his orthodox sect, and Moshe’s entire Hasidic community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Moshe is compelled to ask a Catholic priest, a Muslim imam, and a Sikh holy man for advice. Together, they hash out a plan to help Moshe dance in the Tango contest without sacrificing his sacred beliefs...setting in motion a fun, passionate dance movie. Heart-pumping and heartwarming, Tango Shalom tests the bonds of family and community, and the bounds of tolerance and faith. An interfaith milestone, this film is also notable for being the first movie in history to be a joint collaboration between The Vatican, a Hasidic Synagogue, a Sikh Temple, and a Mosque. Winner of Best Independent Film at the Toronto Film Channel Awards, and Best Comedy Best Actor at Montreal Independent Film Festival, Jaipur Critics Best Film.

　　After receiving a mysterious letter, a woman travels to a desolate island town and soon becomes trapped in a nightmare.

　　本纪录片以红极一时的好莱坞明星——方·基默为主角，通过他在儿时、在演艺生涯间拍摄的个人视频，以及与他兄弟一起合作拍摄的家庭电影等资料，来展现一段他这四十多年来的复杂人生。

　　A small town cop has settled into a peaceful existence. He is reunited with a good friend from Canada’s security agency and told to be on the lookout for Russians that have disappeared in his County. The Russians are a group of cyber-terrorists that have infiltrated and are attempting to disrupt the Canadian election. Colt Hanson – with the help of his small force of peace officers, must do everything he can to find the Russians and bring back order to his small town.

　　When best selling author Carl Black moves his family back to his childhood home, he must team up with oddball neighbors to do battle with a pimp, who may or may not be an actual vampire.

Camellia are beautiful flowers that represent love and loyalty, two qualities that are in short supply in the Ly family. In the gorgeous camellia flower gardens of their beautiful palace, conflicts involving love, loyalty, and honour surround three fabulously wealthy sisters who each hide secret schemes and a desperate desire for love. Eldest sibling Ly Le Han (Le Khanh), a cunning manipulator, has roped melodramatic middle-sister Ly Le Hong (Kaity NGUYEN) into an antique auction fraud but that comes under threat when strong-willed youngest sister Ly Linh (Hong Van) tries to steal a royal robe to further her own career. On the night of the auction, the treasure suddenly disappears and this causes drama for… THE CAMELLIA SISTERS.

　　电影《沙丘》为观众呈现了一段神秘而感人至深的英雄之旅。天赋异禀的少年保罗·厄崔迪被命运指引，为了保卫自己的家族和人民，决心前往浩瀚宇宙间最危险的星球，开启一场惊心动魄的冒险。与此同时，各路势力为了抢夺这颗星球上一种能够释放人类最大潜力的珍贵资源而纷纷加入战场。最终，唯有那些能够战胜内心恐惧的人才能生存下去。

　　当莎蒂跟乖乖牌男友分手后，迷上了叛逆的坏男孩盖文。但她很快就发现和坏男孩约会不只刺激，而且十分危险，身边的家人朋友也因此身陷险境。盖文到底在隐瞒什么？莎蒂和这一切有什么关系？