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Aleksandre Koberidze was born on October 19, 1984 in Tbilisi, Georgia. There he first studied microeconomics and from 2001 to 2005 film production at the Film and Theater Academy. In 2009 he moved to Berlin, where he successfully applied to study directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). During his studies there he realized several short films, for example the dark coming-of-age film "Zoe" (2010) and "Der Fall" (2013), each of which was awarded Short Film of the Month by the German Film and Media Rating (FBW). As an actor, he appeared in several films by fellow student Julian Radlmaier, including his feature-length graduation film "Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes" ("Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog", 2917).
Koberidze made his own feature film debut with the experimental film "Lass den Sommer nie wieder kommen" ("Let the Summer Never Come Again", 2017), about young man from the province who goes to the city to join a dance company. He earns the money he needs for this with illegal boxing matches and prostitution. The film screened at numerous international festivals; at the Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille, it won the Grand Prix and the Prix Première. At the Preis der deutschen Filmkritik, it won Best Experimental Film.
Also in 2017, his six-minute short film "Der perfekte Zuschauer" (2017) screened at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival; with "Linger on some pale blue dot" (2019), he made an experimental poetic short documentary about bread making in a small bakery in Tel Aviv.
With his second feature film "Was sehen wir, wenn wir zum Himmel schauen?" ("What Do We See When We Look At the Sky?"), Aleksandre Koberidze was invited to the competition of the Berlinale 2021. Set in Georgia, the love story about a couple who fall victim to a curse won the FIPRESCI Critics' Prize. Numerous other festival screenings followed. At the Chicago International Film Festival, Koberidze received the Best Screenplay Award, and at Argentina's Mar del Plata Film Festival, the Special Jury Prize. The German theatrical release was in April 2022.
As an actor, Koberidze appeared in a leading role in Julian Radlmaier's idiosyncratic vampire film "Blutsauger" ("Bloodsuckers - A Marxist Vampire Comedy"), which also premiered at the Berlinale 2021, and was released in May 2022.