Alexandre Koberidze

Alexandre Koberidze (Georgisch: ალექსანდრე კობერიძე; born October 19, 1984; Tbilisi) is a Georgian filmmaker, screenwriter, editor and actor. He is currently studying cinema at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. "Colophon" (2015) is his first short film and was presented in Oberhausen. His second feature, "Let the Summer Never Come Again" (2017) has been to FID Marseille where it won the Grand Prix of the International Competition. In 2021 Koberidze received for his second feature film "What do we see when we look at the sky?" (2021) an invitation to the competition at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival . [14] In the almost two and a half hour long work, he again devoted himself to the “poetry of aimlessness”, as previously shown in Let the summer never come again . [15] The romance film takes place in the Georgian city of Kutaisi and is about lovers who fall victim to a curse. Although the work did not receive an award from the competition jury, Koberidze was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize.

A Proletarian Winter's Tale (2014)

Three young Georgians have to clean a castle in Berlin, where a German arms manufacturer's art collection is being set up for an exhibition. Of course, the proletariat isn't welcome at the opening party and they are banished to a servants' room in the attic. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julian Radlmaier
CAST:  Natja Bakhtadze  •  Christoph Förster  •  Katja Weilandt  •  Lars Rudolph

Three young Georgians have to clean a castle in Berlin, where a German arms manufacturer's art collection is being set up for an exhibition. Of course, the proletariat isn't welcome at the opening party and they are banished to a servants' room in the attic. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julian Radlmaier
CAST:  Natja Bakhtadze  •  Christoph Förster  •  Katja Weilandt  •  Lars Rudolph

Man müsste Räuber sein oder wenigstens Sprengmeister (2015)

Young people try to live a life of crime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Bachmann
CAST:  Julian Radlmaier  •  Alexandre Koberidze  •  Beniamin Forti

Young people try to live a life of crime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Bachmann
CAST:  Julian Radlmaier  •  Alexandre Koberidze  •  Beniamin Forti

Colophon (2015)

A young man and a woman on a boat.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
CAST:  Tim Oliver Schultz  •  Isabel Thierauch  •  Gabi Herz  •  Nina Bewig

A young man and a woman on a boat.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
CAST:  Tim Oliver Schultz  •  Isabel Thierauch  •  Gabi Herz  •  Nina Bewig

ROOM H.264: Astoria, NY, January 2018 (2018)

This film, to be shot, edited, finished, and screened all within the dates of the First Look festival, is an open-ended homage to Wim Wenders's documentary Room 666. As in Wenders's original, visiting filmmakers, alone with a camera in a hotel room, will answer the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jeff Reichert  •  Damon Smith  •  Eric Hynes
CAST:  Alexandre Koberidze

This film, to be shot, edited, finished, and screened all within the dates of the First Look festival, is an open-ended homage to Wim Wenders's documentary Room 666. As in Wenders's original, visiting filmmakers, alone with a camera in a hotel room, will answer the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jeff Reichert  •  Damon Smith  •  Eric Hynes
CAST:  Alexandre Koberidze

The Invisible Film (2017)

The famous director Sandro is shooting invisible films with faith in the purity of his work. Having promised the leading role of his new film to his big love, he has to face the fact that there is nothing to see in his films.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anton Gonopolski
CAST:  David Bennent  •  Lutz Blochberger  •  Urs Rechn  •  Renate Serwotke

The famous director Sandro is shooting invisible films with faith in the purity of his work. Having promised the leading role of his new film to his big love, he has to face the fact that there is nothing to see in his films.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anton Gonopolski
CAST:  David Bennent  •  Lutz Blochberger  •  Urs Rechn  •  Renate Serwotke

Let the Summer Never Come Again (2017)

A young man leaves his village to go into the city to audition to enter a dance company. He then is involved in illegal activities such as boxing and sleeping with men for money. Unwillingly, he falls in love with a man and suddenly is accepted in and starts ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
CAST:  Mate Kevlischvili  •  Giorgi Bochorishvili

A young man leaves his village to go into the city to audition to enter a dance company. He then is involved in illegal activities such as boxing and sleeping with men for money. Unwillingly, he falls in love with a man and suddenly is accepted in and starts ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
CAST:  Mate Kevlischvili  •  Giorgi Bochorishvili

Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog (2017)

The story of the dog from the title, who in a frame narrative explains how he came to be transformed from an unemployed communist filmmaker into a canine with a philosophical bent. Unable to finance his new project, young Berlin-based director Julian tells foreign ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julian Radlmaier
CAST:  Julian Radlmaier  •  Deragh Campbell  •  Beniamin Forthi  •  Kyung-Taek Lie

The story of the dog from the title, who in a frame narrative explains how he came to be transformed from an unemployed communist filmmaker into a canine with a philosophical bent. Unable to finance his new project, young Berlin-based director Julian tells foreign ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julian Radlmaier
CAST:  Julian Radlmaier  •  Deragh Campbell  •  Beniamin Forthi  •  Kyung-Taek Lie

30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille (2019)

For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lav Diaz  •  Mati Diop  •  Eduardo Williams  •  Marie Voignier  •  Gastón Solnicki  •  Valérie Massadian  •  Dominique Cabrera  •  Ghassan Salhab  •  Nobuhiro Suwa  •  Mariano Llinás  •  Sepideh Farsi  •  Paula Gaitán  •  Clément Cogitore  •  Véronique Aubouy  •  Manon de Boer  •  Gaël Lépingle  •  Alexandre Koberidze  •  Evangelia Kranioti  •  Clarisse Hahn  •  Pierre Creton  •  Helena Wittmann  •  Elise Florenty  •  Dora García  •  Pascale Bodet  •  Antonia Rossi  •  Claude Schmitz  •  Yuliya Shatun  •  Elvin Adigozel  •  Chris Guide  •  Fabrice Lauterjung  •  Noëlle Pujol
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For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lav Diaz  •  Mati Diop  •  Eduardo Williams  •  Marie Voignier  •  Gastón Solnicki  •  Valérie Massadian  •  Dominique Cabrera  •  Ghassan Salhab  •  Nobuhiro Suwa  •  Mariano Llinás  •  Sepideh Farsi  •  Paula Gaitán  •  Clément Cogitore  •  Véronique Aubouy  •  Manon de Boer  •  Gaël Lépingle  •  Alexandre Koberidze  •  Evangelia Kranioti  •  Clarisse Hahn  •  Pierre Creton  •  Helena Wittmann  •  Elise Florenty  •  Dora García  •  Pascale Bodet  •  Antonia Rossi  •  Claude Schmitz  •  Yuliya Shatun  •  Elvin Adigozel  •  Chris Guide  •  Fabrice Lauterjung  •  Noëlle Pujol
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Uh, It's Great Here (2011)

Short film set at Berlin Potsdamer Platz.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Bachmann
CAST:  Julian Radlmaier  •  Alexandre Koberidze

Short film set at Berlin Potsdamer Platz.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Bachmann
CAST:  Julian Radlmaier  •  Alexandre Koberidze

Looking back is Grace (2013)

Three people were sitting in the cafe when the man enters. Not all saw the donkey, he has staked out. No one could remember what he ordered. Wherever he went, and no one knew. But a short time later, three people are dead.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
CAST:  Beniamin Forthi  •  Anka Baier  •  Emilio De Marchi  •  Adriana Altaras

Three people were sitting in the cafe when the man enters. Not all saw the donkey, he has staked out. No one could remember what he ordered. Wherever he went, and no one knew. But a short time later, three people are dead.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
CAST:  Beniamin Forthi  •  Anka Baier  •  Emilio De Marchi  •  Adriana Altaras

Linger on Some Pale Blue Dot (2019)

One man, one night, one wonder.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
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One man, one night, one wonder.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
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Bloodsuckers (2022)

1928: Lyovuschka, a Soviet worker, is cast in the role of Trotsky for Eisenstein‘s latest film, but quickly finds his dreams of an actor‘s life shattered when Trotsky falls into Stalin‘s disfavor. Exiled from his homeland, he poses as a wealthy baron and finds ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julian Radlmaier
CAST:  Corinna Harfouch  •  Lilith Stangenberg  •  Andreas Döhler  •  Alexandre Koberidze

1928: Lyovuschka, a Soviet worker, is cast in the role of Trotsky for Eisenstein‘s latest film, but quickly finds his dreams of an actor‘s life shattered when Trotsky falls into Stalin‘s disfavor. Exiled from his homeland, he poses as a wealthy baron and finds ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julian Radlmaier
CAST:  Corinna Harfouch  •  Lilith Stangenberg  •  Andreas Döhler  •  Alexandre Koberidze

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021)

In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed with no way ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
CAST:  Oliko Barbakadze  •  Ani Karseladze  •  Giorgi Ambroladze  •  Giorgi Bochorishvili

In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed with no way ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
CAST:  Oliko Barbakadze  •  Ani Karseladze  •  Giorgi Ambroladze  •  Giorgi Bochorishvili

The Perfect Spectator (2017)

Where should one go to do things which are forbidden? Some place where it’s dark.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
CAST: 

Where should one go to do things which are forbidden? Some place where it’s dark.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
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Dry Leaf

Lisa, a photographer, goes missing. The last information on Lisa is that she's been photographing football stadiums in seven different villages all over Georgia. Her dad Irakli decides to search for her and travels to those places. Levani, Lisa's best friend and an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
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Lisa, a photographer, goes missing. The last information on Lisa is that she's been photographing football stadiums in seven different villages all over Georgia. Her dad Irakli decides to search for her and travels to those places. Levani, Lisa's best friend and an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Koberidze
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