29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (07.11-23.11.2025)
Alexandre Koberidze returns with a mesmerising and singular work that ponders life’s most mysterious force: spontaneity.
Sports photographer Lisa vanishes without warning, leaving behind a letter asking not to be found. She was last seen photographing rural football fields in remote Georgian villages. Her father, Irakli, unable to accept her disappearance, sets out on a journey to find her. He teams up with Levani, Lisa’s enigmatic best friend, and together they travel across the countryside, retracing her steps through quiet villages, meeting kind strangers, and speaking with children playing football along the way.
What they uncover are only fragments of Lisa’s presence – traces that become increasingly elusive the further they go. Just as they begin to lose hope, a mysterious event offers one final clue, drawing Irakli and Levani into the unknown and rekindling a faint glimmer of hope.
The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the Locarno Film Festival, where it won the Special Mention prize.
29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (07.11-23.11.2025)
Alexandre Koberidze returns with a mesmerising and singular work that ponders life’s most mysterious force: spontaneity.
Sports photographer Lisa vanishes without warning, leaving behind a letter asking not to be found. She was last seen photographing rural football fields in remote Georgian villages. Her father, Irakli, unable to accept her disappearance, sets out on a journey to find her. He teams up with Levani, Lisa’s enigmatic best friend, and together they travel across the countryside, retracing her steps through quiet villages, meeting kind strangers, and speaking with children playing football along the way.
What they uncover are only fragments of Lisa’s presence – traces that become increasingly elusive the further they go. Just as they begin to lose hope, a mysterious event offers one final clue, drawing Irakli and Levani into the unknown and rekindling a faint glimmer of hope.
The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the Locarno Film Festival, where it won the Special Mention prize.
Alexandre Koberidze returns with a mesmerising and singular work that ponders life’s most mysterious force: spontaneity.
Sports photographer Lisa vanishes without warning, leaving behind a letter asking not to be found. She was last seen photographing rural football fields in remote Georgian villages. Her father, Irakli, unable to accept her disappearance, sets out on a journey to find her. He teams up with Levani, Lisa’s enigmatic best friend, and together they travel across the countryside, retracing her steps through quiet villages, meeting kind strangers, and speaking with children playing football along the way.
What they uncover are only fragments of Lisa’s presence – traces that become increasingly elusive the further they go. Just as they begin to lose hope, a mysterious event offers one final clue, drawing Irakli and Levani into the unknown and rekindling a faint glimmer of hope.
The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the Locarno Film Festival, where it won the Special Mention prize.
Info
Rating
-
Production year
2025
Global distributor
Heretic
Local distributor
Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ
In cinema
11/15/2025