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Dry leaf

Dry Leaf

by Alexandre Koberidze

Welcome to the Norwegian premiere of Dry Leaf at Kunstnernes Hus Kino. Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze has crafted a radical cinematic experiment—a three-hour odyssey shot entirely on an old Sony Ericsson phone, its crushed, pixelated images hovering somewhere between memory and dream.

The film screens at Kunstnernes Hus Kino as part of Special Import—our series for artistically ambitious films without cinema distribution.

Lisa, a sports photographer documenting football pitches across rural Georgia, has disappeared. Her father Irakli refuses to accept her wish to remain unfound, and sets out across the country with her mysterious best friend. Yet Dry Leaf unfolds less as investigation than as drift: those they meet offer fragments that never quite cohere, while the camera lingers on open plains, mountain passes, and goalposts standing like sentinels in tall grass. Koberidze's Sony Ericsson produces images at once degraded and strangely luminous, as if the search itself were taking place in the haze of recollection. With brother Giorgi Koberidze's spare, aching score guiding the rhythm, the film settles into something closer to elegy—a reckoning with loss, chance, and the bonds that outlast certainty.

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