7.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Dry Leaf (2026)
Dry Leaf (2026)
Overview
Dry Leaf is an experimental Georgian road movie directed by Aleksandre Koberidze, in which a father, Irakli (David Koberidze), joins his missing daughter's invisible best friend Levani (Otar Nijaradze) to search rural soccer fields for the disappeared photographer Lisa. Shot in low-resolution on a Sony Ericsson mobile phone, it premiered in competition at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
7.4
Overview
Dry Leaf is an experimental Georgian road movie directed by Aleksandre Koberidze, in which a father, Irakli (David Koberidze), joins his missing daughter's invisible best friend Levani (Otar Nijaradze) to search rural soccer fields for the disappeared photographer Lisa. Shot in low-resolution on a Sony Ericsson mobile phone, it premiered in competition at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's meditative road trip through rural Georgia centers on personal loss and unresolved mysteries, prioritizing human bonds and wonder in the mundane over any ideological stance. Its subtle nods to historical and political disruptions remain backgrounded by themes of quiet resilience and acceptance.
The film employs traditional casting with Georgian actors in roles aligned with the story's rural Georgian setting. Its narrative explores family disappearance and landscape meditation without addressing or critiquing traditional identities through a DEI lens.
Secondary
The film's road-trip narrative affirms the father-daughter bond through the protagonist's gentle persistence in seeking his independent adult child, endorsing parental care as a quiet anchor against loss and isolation. This positive framing of biological family ties and paternal role outweighs the daughter's autonomy, leaning toward traditional values.
No LGBTQ+ characters or themes are present in the film. The story explores familial loss and rural landscapes through experimental, low-resolution visuals, emphasizing invisibility in a non-queer context.
No transgender characters or themes appear in the film. The narrative follows a father's search for his missing daughter across rural Georgia, focusing on absence and landscape without addressing gender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Dry Leaf presents an original story of a father searching for his missing daughter amid rural Georgian landscapes, with no adaptations, historical figures, or legacy characters involved, yielding no gender swaps.
Dry Leaf presents an original story set in rural Georgia with characters portrayed by actors of matching Georgian ethnicity, lacking any source material or historical basis that would enable race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.7
6.0
Critic Ratings
9.2
7.8
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