Nino and Irakli’s daughter, Lisa, vanishes after leaving a letter asking not to be found. Though devastated, her parents would like to respect her wishes, but Irakli can’t let go. Lisa, a sports photographer, had been capturing football fields in remote Georgian villages. Given a list of locations by her editor, Irakli teams up with Levani, Lisa’s close friend and invisible person to find Lisa. As they journey through Georgia’s vast and varied landscapes, they visit quiet villages, meet kind strangers and talk to children playing football on the fields they visit. They piece together fragments of Lisa’s travels, but the further they go, the more elusive she becomes. Just as the search begins to feel hopeless, a mysterious occurrence offers a final clue – prompting one last step into the unknown and rekindling a glimmer of hope.

Cast & Crew
Producers: Mariam Shatberashvili, Luise Hauschild, Alexandre Koberidze
Director: Alexandre Koberidze
Script: Alexandre Koberidze
Director of Photography: Alexandre Koberidze
Music: Giorgi Koberidze
Sound: Giorgi Koberidze
Editing: Alexandre Koberidze
Cast: David Koberidze, Otar Nijaradze
Production: New Matter Films

Awards
Special Jury Mention, FIPRESCI Award, Locarno IFF, 2025; Grand Prix, Bangkok IFF, Thailand, 2025; Best Film, Pančevo IFF, Serbia, 2025

Alexandre Koberidze
Alexandre Koberidze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and studied directing at the German Film & TV Academy Berlin (DFFB). Here he successfully made several short films, and the feature-length film Let Summer Never Come Again, which won numerous awards at festivals worldwide, including the Grand Prix at the FID Marseille. His graduation film What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? premiered at Berlinale Competition in 2021, was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize there, sold worldwide and was shown and honored at numerous festivals. Dry Leaf is his third fiction feature. Alexandre Koberidze also writes texts for various publications on the subject of film.

Filmography
Der Fall (short, 2014), Colophonm(short, 2015), The Perfect Spectator (short, 2017), Let the Summer Never Come Again (2017), Linger on Some Pale Blue Dot (short, 2018), What Do We See When We Look at The Sky? (2021), Dry Leaf (2025)