From the balcony of his family’s apartment in Aleppo’s Midan district, Avo Kaprealian began chronicling daily life on the streets, capturing the sense of foreboding rapidly approaching with the violent conflict engulfing the country. Once in a while, the father breaks his silence to reprimand his son for endangering the entire family. In contrast, the mother avails herself to the camera, recounting events and divulging emotion without reserve. Midan’s residents are mainly descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide, who fled their homes in modern-day Turkey to settle in Aleppo. As the armed conflict hits their street, Kaprealian’s lens turns inward to record the family’s quotidian life and how they cope with shelling, snipers and power cuts. For Armenian-Syrians, whose memory is deeply etched with the tragedy of forced exile, the prospect of leaving their homes and lives behind to escape death echoes like an ancestral trauma being relived. Kaprealian invokes the history of cinema to incarnate his family’s agonising present and transforms an archive of the imaginary into one of lived experience, stitching together ruptures in modern history and providing condolence for grief. berlinale 2016

不管是上司还是部下，大家都很依赖万里江，她是传说中“只要拜托她就不会离婚”的精明婚礼策划师和公司社长。虽然工作很努力，但是家里来了快要失业的漫画家丈夫，和梦想成为偶像却在试镜中被淘汰，变得不信任人的儿子，还有被宣告黄昏离婚只剩一个人的父亲。“居然每天都惹是生非!” 和三个废柴男在一起的日子里蒸蒸日上的万里江，正在寻找新的家庭形态。无论遇到什么样的苦难，她都能用天生的积极向上去面对。即使男人们经历了100次大的失败，她也会因为一茶匙的成长而感动，因为一茶匙的温柔而流泪，始终在心中高声说“别担心，我会养活你们的!”。