Heretic has acquired world sales rights to Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze’s “Dry Leaf” ahead of its world premiere in the International Competition at the Locarno Film Festival.
The director’s latest tells the story of sports photographer Lisa, who suddenly vanishes without a trace while photographing rural soccer stadiums in villages across Georgia. Setting out with the woman’s mysterious best friend, her father, Irakli, embarks on a journey to find her.
Variety has been given exclusive access to the film’s trailer:
Taking its name from a 1950s soccer technique introduced by Brazilian footballer Didi, where the ball’s unpredictable flight mimics a falling leaf drifting in the wind, “Dry Leaf” uses that central metaphor to explore themes of uncertainty, fate and surrender, as Koberidze explains in a director’s statement provided to Variety.
“Try to remember a leaf falling from above — how it changes direction and speed,...
The director’s latest tells the story of sports photographer Lisa, who suddenly vanishes without a trace while photographing rural soccer stadiums in villages across Georgia. Setting out with the woman’s mysterious best friend, her father, Irakli, embarks on a journey to find her.
Variety has been given exclusive access to the film’s trailer:
Taking its name from a 1950s soccer technique introduced by Brazilian footballer Didi, where the ball’s unpredictable flight mimics a falling leaf drifting in the wind, “Dry Leaf” uses that central metaphor to explore themes of uncertainty, fate and surrender, as Koberidze explains in a director’s statement provided to Variety.
“Try to remember a leaf falling from above — how it changes direction and speed,...
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- Variety Film + TV
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