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Smiling Georgia

Special Screenings 2023 / Gimiliani Sakartvelo / Georgia, Germany 2023

Smiling Georgia Smiling Georgia

Synopsis

During its 2012 election campaign titled “Smiling Georgia,” the governing party promised its country’s poorest residents new teeth in exchange for their vote. Dentists began to pull people’s decayed teeth, but after the election defeat, the trusting public never received their new pearly whites… In his bitterly humorous documentary, Luka Beradze takes us to a sleepy Georgian village, introduces us to its inhabitants, and shows that it rarely pays to believe the promises of populist politicians and to vote for purely selfish reasons. In the broader context, the film asks questions regarding the value of ordinary people in the eyes of political leaders.

Lenka Tyrpáková

About the film

62 min / Color, DCP
World premiere

Director Luka Beradze / Screenplay Luka Beradze / Dir. of Photography Lomero Akhvlediani / Music Alex Kordzaia / Sound Jascha Viehl / Editor Nodar Nozadze, Joseph Bliadze, Luka Beradze / Producer Nino Chichua, Anna Khazaradze / Production 1991 Productions / Coproduction Color of May, Enkeny Films / Cast Nana Papidze, Lamara Samkharadze, Nodar Labadze, Bezhan Labadze / Contact 1991 Productions

About the director

Luka Beradze

Luka Beradze (Tbilisi, Georgia). Selected filmography: Sorry for Being Late (Bodishi dagvianebistvis, 2020, short), Smiling Georgia (Gimiliani Sakartvelo, 2023, doc.).

Contacts

1991 Productions
40 Paliashvili st, , Tbilisi
Georgia
Phone: +995 599 442 211
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Luka Beradze
Film Director

Nino Chichua
Producer

Eva Blondiau
Producer

Anna Khazaradze
Producer

Lomer Akhvlediani
Director of Photography

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