Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Shadows in Paradise, The Match Factory Girl) makes a brilliant return with Fallen Leaves, a timeless, hopeful and satisfying love story about two lonely people and their path to happiness, accompanied by the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way.

Set in contemporary Helsinki, this film focuses on two middle-aged people, a supermarket worker and an alcoholic, who together find love for the first time in their lives, in this romantic tragicomedy, with Kaurismäki’s typically playful, idiosyncratic style and deadpan humor. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and the Silver Hugo Award for Best Director at the Chicago International Film Festival.

Charles Coleman, FACETS‘ Film Program Director has selected Fallen Leaves as one of his Top Ten Films from the year 2023. View the full list here.