Alexandre Koberidze
Georgian filmmaker (born 1984)
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Alexandre Koberidze (Georgian: ალექსანდრე კობერიძე; born 19 October 1984) is a Georgian filmmaker and screenwriter.
- Filmmaker
- screenwriter
Most known for the feature films Let the Summer Never Come Again (2017), What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021) and Dry Leaf (2025).
Early life
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, he studied film and television there from 2001 to 2005. He then moved to Berlin in 2009 where he studied film directing at Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.[1]
Career
He directed several short films before his first feature, Let the Summer Never Come Again (2017), a docufiction which won the Grand Prix and Prix Premier prizes at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film and the German Film Critics Association Prize.[2][3][4]
His second feature, 2021's What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, had its world premiere at the main competition of the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize.[5][6]
His 2025's feature film Dry Leaf will have its world premiere at the main competition of the 78th Locarno Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Golden Leopard.
Filmography
Feature films
| Year | English title | Original title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Let the Summer Never Come Again | ნეტავ აღარასდროს მოვიდეს ზაფხული | Also editor |
| 2021 | What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | რას ვხედავთ როდესაც ცას ვუყურებთ? | |
| 2025 | Dry Leaf | ხმელი ფოთოლი | Also producer, cinematographer and editor |
Short films
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Looking Back Is Grace | Also editor |
| 2015 | Colophon | |
| 2017 | The Perfect Spectator | |
| 2019 | Linger on Some Pale Blue Dot |
As actor
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | A Proletarian Winter's Tale | |
| 2017 | Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog | Case Worker |
| 2017 | The Invisible Film | Sandro |
| 2021 | Bloodsuckers | Ljowushka |