Alexandre Koberidze (born October 19, 1984) is a Georgian filmmaker and screenwriter. His credits include the films Let the Summer Never Come Again (2017) and What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021).
He directed several short films before his first feature, Let the Summer Never Come Again (2017), a docufiction which won the Grand Prix and Prix Premier prizes at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film and the German Film Critics Association Prize. [1] [2] [3]
His second feature, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? , won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. [4] [5]
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, he studied film and television there from 2001 to 2005. He then moved to Berlin in 2009 where he studied film directing at Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin. [6]
Year | Film | Type | Credited as | ||
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Director | Writer | Editor | |||
2013 | Looking Back Is Grace | Short film | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2015 | Colophon | Short film | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2017 | Let the Summer Never Come Again | Feature film | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2017 | The Perfect Spectator | Short film | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2019 | Linger on Some Pale Blue Dot | Short film | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2021 | What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | Feature film | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Year | Film | Role |
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2014 | A Proletarian Winter's Tale | |
2017 | Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog | Case Worker |
2017 | The Invisible Film | Sandro |
2021 | Bloodsuckers | Ljowushka |
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