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FALLEN LEAVES<br />
KUOLLEET LEHDET<br />
FINLAND &GERMANY 2023 81 MINS<br />
Finnish with English subtitles<br />
CFF<br />
15<br />
DIRECTOR Aki Kaurismäki<br />
WITH Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen<br />
Ansa (Alma Pöysti) is a shelf stacker who is fired for stealing<br />
an expiring sandwich and Holappa (Jussi Vatanen) is a<br />
construction worker with a drinking problem. When their<br />
awkward encounter at a karaoke bar ends with a telephone<br />
number exchange, a tragically beautiful gust of wind sweeps<br />
the little piece of paper out of Holappa’s hands. If it’s fate,<br />
they’ll meet again. Finnish maestro Aki Kaurismäki remains<br />
true to himself with this absurdist, warm-hearted melodrama.<br />
The film is ultimately a fated love story between two workers<br />
who can’t keep a job in Helsinki’s dwindling manual labour<br />
market. Fallen Leaves is a tribute to Leo McCarey’s 1957 film An<br />
Affair to Remember, with a nod to Jim Jarmusch’s zombie film<br />
The Dead Don’t Die (2019).<br />
PRINT SOURCE MUBI<br />
SAT<br />
21<br />
19:35<br />
THU<br />
26<br />
19:00<br />
GIRL<br />
CFF<br />
15<br />
UK 2023 87 MINS<br />
DIRECTOR Adura Onashile<br />
WITH Déborah Lukumuena, Danny Sapani, Le’shantey<br />
Bonsu, Liana Turner<br />
Eleven-year-old Ama (Le’shantey Bonsu) and her mother,<br />
24-year-old Grace (Déborah Lukumuena), have built<br />
themselves an intimate but isolated world in which to exist<br />
in Scotland. However, on the precipice of teenagehood, will<br />
Ama’s hope for more freedom unravel their bond? Awardwinning<br />
Glasgow-based artist Adura Onashile creates a striking<br />
portrait of a mother reconciling with her past, the realities of<br />
immigration, and finding unconditional love at the core.<br />
PRINT SOURCE Studio Soho Distribution<br />
SAT<br />
21<br />
16:15<br />
WED<br />
25<br />
20:15<br />
Adura Onashile makes<br />
a promising feature-length<br />
debut.<br />
GUY LODGE<br />
VARIETY<br />
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