Alexandre Koberidze

Alexandre Koberidze
ალექსანდრე კობერიძე
Koberidze in 2021
Born (1984-10-19) 19 October 1984
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • screenwriter
Years active2013–present

Alexandre Koberidze (Georgian: ალექსანდრე კობერიძე; born 19 October 1984) is a Georgian filmmaker and 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 Againნეტავ აღარასდროს მოვიდეს ზაფხული Also editor
2021 What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?რას ვხედავთ როდესაც ცას ვუყურებთ?
2025 Dry Leafხმელი ფოთოლი Also producer, cinematographer and editor

Short films

Year Title Notes
2013 Looking Back Is GraceAlso 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 DogCase Worker
2017 The Invisible FilmSandro
2021 BloodsuckersLjowushka

References