Nordic Council Film Prize // Finland: Fallen Leaves

Aki Kaurismäki is back with the Cannes film FALLEN LEAVES, a beautiful film about people on the fringes of society who find love. A romantic comedy with a big heart and full of the director's well-known absurd humor.

Ansa works in a low-paid supermarket job where part of her work is throwing away perfectly good food that has expired. When one day she gives out expired food to a hungry passerby, she loses her job. Holappa is heavily alcoholic and works as a construction worker. One day they meet at a karaoke bar and they immediately find the tone.

Aki Kaurismäki is back with Fallen Leaves, a lovely film about people on the fringes of society who find love. This is a romantic comedy with a big heart and packed with the director's well-known absurd humor. The film won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film is Finland's nominated film for the Nordic Council's Film Prize. 

«An 81-minute film that’s as crisp and bittersweet as a late autumn breeze, Kaurismäki’s latest might amount to little more than a bauble in the end, but it offers a stirring reminder — both with its story, and through the experience of watching it — that life can only be so bleak so long as you can still go to the movies and escape it for a little while.»
– David Ehrlich, IndieWire –

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About the Nordic Council Film Prize

The Nordic Council Film Prize, awarded since 2005, aims to facilitate the production of Nordic films and strengthen the Nordic film market.

The prize is awarded to a feature film rooted in Nordic culture, with high artistic value, distinguished by artistic originality, and presenting itself as a cohesive work. It is also a plus if the film is innovative within its genre when the nominated films are compared.

Read more about the film prize here: https://www.norden.org/no/information/om-filmprisen

Director

Aki Kaurismäki (b. 1957) is a Finnish director and screenwriter. He is known as one of the most important filmmakers in Finnish cinema, and has among other made the films The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011) and The Other Side of Hope (2017).

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