In Kutaisi, a lively and ancient Georgian town, Lisa and Giorgi meet by chance and a book falls to the ground. They are dazed, clearly struck by love, and arrange to meet the next day without even exchanging names. But Lisa and Giorgi have fallen under the curse of the Evil Eye, and are both destined to wake up the following morning looking like other people.
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2021 Berlin Festival, this witty, warm and surprising modern folktale is in love with love, soccer, cinema and street dogs. Koberidze’s combination of romantic lyricism and cerebral irony is “a slyly inventive, free-ranging adventure in cinematic possibility” (Screen).
Filmography: Let the Summer Never Come Again (2017).
Online conversation with the director