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186m
Dry Leaf
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Synopsis
Exclusive One-Off Screening
with an introduction by VHS Tracking and At Door Ajar.
Sunday, September 27
Luna Leederville
A young woman’s disappearance prompts an investigative road trip tinted with magic realism in this strangely gorgeous, wildly lo-fi Georgian gem.
When sports photographer Lisa vanished, she was working on an assignment documenting ramshackle football fields across the country. She has left behind a letter for her parents in Tbilisi instructing them not to follow her – a request that her father, Irakli (played by the filmmaker’s own father, David Koberidze), disregards. He attempts to retrace her cross-country path together with her colleague Levan – who, like many of the characters in this gentle and transfixing saga, happens to be invisible – but theirs is destined to be a sublimely digressive quest, punctuated by curious encounters.
Shot entirely on an old Sony Ericsson camera phone and unfolding across an epic timescale, Alexandre Koberidze’s latest feature – winner of both a Competition Special Mention and the FIPRESCI Prize at Locarno Film Festival – combines melancholic whimsy with a daring formal gambit, giving its images of the Georgian countryside a surprising, pixelated beauty at times verging on abstraction.
Festivals & Awards
2025 Locarno International Film Festival | Winner: FIPRESCI Prize, Special Mention: International Competition
2025 Toronto International Film Festival | Official Selection
2026 Melbourne International Film Festival | Official Selection
2026 Sydney Film Festival | Official Selection
2026 New Horizons International Film Festival | Winner: Grand Prix
Georgian with English subtitles.
Opening Date
Sunday, Sep 27, 2026
Rating
CTC
Length
186m
Genre
New Release
Reviews
Dry Leaf is a joy for devotees of the strange, singular and sometimes transcendent … This is a pioneering use of old, ephemeral tech to invent new, eternal cinema.
Koberidze’s use of the Sony Ericsson camera encourages a childlike mode of perception: encountering mundane imagery with renewed curiosity, assembling meaning from fragments of a world whose wonder have been dulled by overexposure to slick digital images.
The lo-fi video renders the grand, rugged landscapes in fiercely expressive images that play like cinematic Fauvism, as Irakli’s encounters with country people thrum with memory and mystery.
An imaginative synthesis between impressionist/post-impressionist painting alongside the patient cinematic sensibilities of Abbas Kiarostami.
Koberidze gently guides us into disrupting our need to reconcile the beautiful incompleteness of the world: feel, don’t overthink.
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