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Sedona Film Fest presents ‘Fallen Leaves’ premiere Dec. 15-20

Finland’s official entry to the Academy Awards for Best International Film debuts

December 9, 2023No Comments

Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with “Fallen Leaves” — a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way.

Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with “Fallen Leaves” — a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way.

Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Fallen Leaves” showing Dec. 15-20 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon and Mary D. Fisher Theatres.

Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with “Fallen Leaves” — a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way.

“Fallen Leaves” is Finland’s official entry to the Academy Awards for Best International Film and is the winner of the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. It premiered to rave audience reviews at prestigious film festivals around the world.

Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with “Fallen Leaves” — a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way.

Set in contemporary Helsinki, and shot through with Kaurismäki’s typically playful, idiosyncratic style and deadpan humor, this tender romantic tragicomedy is a timely reminder of the potency of movie-going from one of cinema’s living legends.

“The best film of the year!” — The International Federation of Film Critics

“Fallen Leaves” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon and Mary D. Fisher Theatres Dec. 15-20. Showtimes will be Friday, Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 15, 18 and 19 at 6:30 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 17 at 7:00 p.m.; and Wednesday, Dec. 20 at 3:30 p.m.

Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.

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A Cauldron of Misconceptions: Sedona Enquirer
By Sean Dedalus

Sedona, AZ — I don’t know what happened to the Publisher of Sedona.Biz, the once moderate and reasonable journalist, Tommy Acosta. Or maybe I do. He must be pulling our leg.

In Mr. Acosta’s last Opinion piece, Cauldron of Chaos, Acosta pins together a necklace of current events and concludes we are on the verge of a “cosmic reckoning”. Acosta throws paint on the canvas with each hand slapping the slop on the imagination of the readers. He says in Georgia, a young college student jogging on campus was raped and murdered by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien. Shortly thereafter, Congress passes the Laken Riley Bill.

In Louisiana, Acosta points to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US Army veteran who killed 14 people and left 35 more injured after he drove a truck into a crowd on New Years Day.

In New York City Sebastian Zapeta, another illegal alien took out a match and set afire a sleeping woman to death on a Brooklyn subway. Meanwhile, up in Manhattan, the CEO of United Healthcare was shot in the back by Luigi Mangione an Ivy League graduate. Acosta also takes us to Colorado where the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua took over an entire apartment building.

Acosta is not finished as he suggests that Los Angelas County’s California looked like nine concentric circles of torment which constituted hell on Earth, as spelled out by Dante Aligheri.

Finally, Mr. Acosta draws our attention to the skies all around the world where US Black Op drones follow alien plasma orbs, while Joe Biden wears his typical dumbfounded look and mumbles that even though he does not know what is going on, there is no evidence of any danger to public safety.

Mr. Acosta warns American society is unravelling at the seams. He stops short of predicting the showdown between Jesus and the Antichrist. His Opinion reads like the script to The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock.

I am sorry to report to Mr. Acosta that there is no evil spirit spreading fear throughout America. That’s right. No evil spirit. Just greedy criminals and politicians. And very stupid politicians whose malfeasance borderlines on criminal conduct.

If we were to reflect as to events suggesting the end of the world we need only look back to World War II (1939-1945). Over 30 Nations were actually at war. Over 100 million people served in uniform. An estimated 70-85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the global population in 1940. On 6 and 9 of August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 286,818 people were killed.

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