Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
2023 | M | 1 hour 21 mins | Finland, Germany | Arabic, Finnish
Award-winning Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki landed yet another Palme d'Or nomination, and the Jury Prize, at Cannes with FALLEN LEAVES. It tells the story of Ansa, a supermarket shelf-stocker on a zero-hour contract, later a recyclable plastic sorter, and Holappa, a sandblaster, an alcoholic, later an ex-alcoholic, whose paths have accidentally crossed and who, despite adversity and misunderstandings, try to build some kind of relationship on the harsher side of the welfare state.
Producer: Aki Kaurismäki, Reinhard Brundig, Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
Screenplay: Aki Kaurismäki
Cinematography: Timo Salminen
Cast: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu, Alina Tomnikov