SOFT LEAVES

By Miwako VAN WEYENBERG

ARTHOOD ENTERTAINMENT GMBH - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2025

After her father ends up in the hospital, eleven year old Yuna’s world is turned upside down when she’s reconnected with her Japanese mother and half-sister.

Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFFR 2025
Big Screen Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Drama, Female director
    • Countries
    • BELGIUM
    • Languages
    • DUTCH, JAPANESE, GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Miwako VAN WEYENBERG
    • Producer(s)
    • Antonio LOMBARDO
    • Synopsis
    • Yuna's parents separated when she was young. Her mother returned to Japan to remarry and start a new familly, leaving her in Belgium with her father. Years later, a sudden accident leaves him in a coma, prompting her mothers return, this time with a half-sister Yuna barely knows. It's more than Yuna can handle at first, but as her father shows signs of recovery, she is forced to confront her own feelings and navigate the complex ties of her fractured family.