What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

In this seductively original urban fairytale, director Alexandre Koberidze starts with a simple love story and builds a quirkily unpredictable portrait of life in the beautiful Georgian city of Kutaisi. For Lisa and Giorgi, it’s love at first sight but although they agree to meet the next day, they are struck by a curse so they can no longer recognise each other. Life goes on as usual in their hometown, street dogs stray, the football world cup begins and a film crew on its quest to find true love might be what they need.

‘For me, to make a film is to film the things that interest me—not necessarily just a story. I think there are enough fairy tales and secrets in the things which you can see everywhere, that’s what interests me. At the same time, I don’t want to get too far from the tradition of filmmaking, where we have a story, a beginning, an end, and characters. I read a very good quote by Yuri Norstein, a very famous Russian animator and in his book he writes: “The simpler the story, the more time you have for the film.”’

Director Aleksandre Koberidze, from an interview with Film Comment.