Alexandre Koberidze
1984 (40 лет)Der unsichtbare Film
Anton Gonopolski
David Bennent, Lutz Blochberger
The famous director Sandro is shooting invisible films with faith in the purity of his work. Having promised the leading role of his new film to his big love, he has to face the fact that there is nothing to see in his films.
The Invisible Film
Der Fall
Alexandre Koberidze
Beniamin Forthi, Anka Baier
Three people were sitting in the cafe when the man enters. Not all saw the donkey, he has staked out. No one could remember what he ordered. Wherever he went, and no one knew. But a short time later, three people are dead.
Looking back is Grace
რას ვხედავთ, როდესაც ცას ვუყურებთ?
Alexandre Koberidze
Oliko Barbakadze, Giorgi Ambroladze
In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed with no way to recognize each other.
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes
Julian Radlmaier
Julian Radlmaier, Deragh Campbell
The story of the dog from the title, who in a frame narrative explains how he came to be transformed from an unemployed communist filmmaker into a canine with a philosophical bent. Unable to finance his new project, young Berlin-based director Julian tells foreign exchange student Camille that his job in the countryside is research for an upcoming film. When Camille offers to help, he is forced to uphold the lie. The plantation isn’t the proletarian idyll he had hoped for, but fortunately the reincarnation of Francis of Assisi provides spiritual insight and a new aim in life.
Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog
Ein proletarisches Wintermärchen
Julian Radlmaier
Natja Bakhtadze, Ilia Korkashvili
Three young Georgians have to clean a castle in Berlin, where a German arms manufacturer's art collection is being set up for an exhibition. Of course, the proletariat isn't welcome at the opening party and they are banished to a servants' room in the attic. Downstairs, however, a splendid buffet attracts them - so why not just ignore the unfair prohibition and cross the line of class society? Didn't the French Revolution start over a piece of cake?
A Proletarian Winter's Tale
Lass den Sommer nie wieder kommen
Alexandre Koberidze
Mate Kevlischvili, Giorgi Bochorishvili
A young man leaves his village to go into the city to audition to enter a dance company. He then is involved in illegal activities such as boxing and sleeping with men for money. Unwillingly, he falls in love with a man and suddenly is accepted in and starts dancing in the company. But his life will turn upside down when his lover goes to war and he returns to his village.
Let the Summer Never Come Again
Blutsauger
Julian Radlmaier
Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg
1928: Lyovuschka, a Soviet worker, is cast in the role of Trotsky for Eisenstein‘s latest film, but quickly finds his dreams of an actor‘s life shattered when Trotsky falls into Stalin‘s disfavor. Exiled from his homeland, he poses as a wealthy baron and finds himself stuck in a glamorous seaside resort in Germany awaiting a barge that will take him to Hollywood. A summer romance kicks off when he meets the eccentric factory owner Octavia Flambow-Jansen - it's just too bad there are vampires around.
Bloodsuckers
ROOM H.264: Astoria, NY, January 2018
Jeff Reichert, Damon Smith
Alexandre Koberidze
This film, to be shot, edited, finished, and screened all within the dates of the First Look festival, is an open-ended homage to Wim Wenders's documentary Room 666. As in Wenders's original, visiting filmmakers, alone with a camera in a hotel room, will answer the question "Is cinema a dead language, an art which is already in the process of decline?" Participants will include an international selection of filmmakers visiting for First Look 2018.
ROOM H.264: Astoria, NY, January 2018
