Dry Leaf
Singapore Premiere
Alexandre Koberidze Germany, Georgia 2025 186 min PG
A father’s quest through Georgia’s crumbling football fields turns into a haunting meditation on the fading of memory and spaces.
Lisa, a sports photographer, vanishes during her final assignment documenting Georgian football fields, leaving only a cryptic note confirming her choice to disappear. Bewildered but undeterred, Irakli retraces his daughter’s steps through Caucasian valleys, inadvertently indexing a visual study of Georgia’s desolate football pitches – a far cry from their national football team’s glory days in the 1970s and 1980s.
Shot on an obsolete Sony Ericsson phone camera, Dry Leaf embraces digital decay, using pixellated fragments and dramatic colour deviations to create an alternate reality. The seemingly never-ending search drifts into a dreamlike realm, where melancholic yearning merges with the travelling wind.
Synopsis Writer: Gabriel Goh
29 Nov, Sat 10:00AM / 186 min
Oldham Theatre
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Dry Leaf
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Alexandre Koberidze
Germany, Georgia
2025
Georgian
English
186 min
PG
Singapore Premiere
Alexandre Koberidze
Alexandre Koberidze is a Georgian filmmaker celebrated for his poetic and dreamlike films that reconfigure the everyday into the magical. His previous films have garnered critical acclaim at Berlinale and FIDMarseille. Dry Leaf, his third feature, premiered in the main competition at Locarno, earning a Special Mention.
David Koberidze,
Otar Nijaradze
Mariam Shatberashvili,
Luise Hauschild
