FALLEN LEAVES

KUOLLEET LEHDET

By Aki KAURISMÄKI

SOONER / UNIVERSCINE BELGIUM - as BROAD

Drama - Completed 2023

FALLEN LEAVES tells the story of two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2023
Competition Jury Prize
Karlovy Vary IFF 2023
Horizons
Toronto - TIFF 2023
Centrepiece
San Sebastian FF 2023
Perlak
Busan IFF 2023
Icons
Cannes 2023
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama, Comedy
    • Countries
    • FINLAND
    • Languages
    • FINNISH
    • Duration
    • 81 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Aki KAURISMÄKI
    • Synopsis
    • FALLEN LEAVES tells the story of two lonely people (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen) who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives. Their path towards this honourable goal is clouded by the man’s alcoholism, lost phone numbers, not knowing each other’s names or addresses, and life’s general tendency to place obstacles in the way of those seeking their happiness.

      This gentle tragicomedy, previously thought to be lost, is the fourth part of Aki Kaurismäki’s working-class trilogy (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl).