DRY LEAF
a film by Alexandre Koberidze
FEATURE PRESENTATION
MAY 27, 2026 • 9:00 PM
@ THE BUS STOP THEATRE
(2203 GOTTINGEN STREET, HALIFAX)
2025 / GERMANY, GEORGIA / 186 mins
In Georgian with English subtitles
Filmed on a 2008 Sony Ericsson phone, and passing its three-hour runtime at a blithe stroll, Dry Leaf might be the most quietly iconoclastic work of the 2020s. Alexandre Koberidze’s latest is his much anticipated follow-up to 2021’s What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, which earned him a reputation for esoteric storytelling, disarming photography, and indulgence in soccer-obsessed tangents.
Each of these signatures is magnified in Dry Leaf, which follows a father (played by Koberidze’s real-life dad) on a search for his missing daughter, meandering through the abandoned soccer fields of the Georgian countryside with her (invisible) best friend as his guide.
When projected, its lo-fi pixels crackle and compress like a Seurat in motion, offering a silent rebuttal to modern cinema’s HD sheen and the very notion of an “industry standard.” It’s a fitting milieu for a film of disappearances—disappearing technologies, bodies, ways of life—that ponders the vanishing act each of us is in the process of pulling, and reminds us whatever lingering pleasures remain in the world are worth finding. —Evan Bower
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Alexandre Koberidze
Alexandre Koberidze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and studied directing at the German Film and TV Academy Berlin. He has directed several short films and the features Let Summer Never Come Again and What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?