Smiling Georgia

GEO/DE | 2023 | 62 minutes | Documentary

World Premiere at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on July 4th, 2023.

What are the costs of the half-truths that politicians tell? In 2012, in the race for reelection, Georgia’s governing party was promising subsidized dental care to the country’s least well off. Across the land, state medical practitioners began removing rotten teeth with the promise of replacements in the months that followed — then the party lost.

Through interviews with those worst affected by that campaign, Smiling Georgia tells a story about the whims of political power and the defiance of those who usually hold the least of it .

Director: Luka Beradze

Production: 1991 Productions

Co-production: Color of May, Enkeny Films,

Glory To The Queen

AT/GEO/SRB | 2020 | 82 minutes | Documentary

During the Cold War, four legendary female chess players from Georgia revolutionized women’s chess across the globe, and became Soviet icons of female emancipation. Glory to the Queen reveals their interwoven biographies and is both a rare look into the present lives of chess stars Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Maia Chiburdanidze and Nana Ioseliani, as well as a chronicle of their lasting legacy. 

Starring:  Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Nana Ioseliani, Maia Chiburdanidze 

Directors: Tatia Skhirtladze, Anna Khazaradze 

Production: 1991 Productions, berg Hamer film, AMOUR FOU Vienaa, Playground Produkcija

International Sales: Filmdelights

Watch on iTunes, Google Play, Microsoft Store, Vimeo On Demand, Kino VOD Club, Flimmit, Sooner, and dafilms.

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Negative Numbers

GEO/FR/IT | 2019 | 110 minutes | Drama

Based on true events, the story unfolds at a juvenile detention centre in Tbilisi, where rugby is introduced as a reintegration program to help young criminals change their futures.

Starring:  Sandro Kalandadze, Viktor Barbakadze, Tedo Bekhauri, Lexo Gugava, Sandro Abashidze

Director: Uta Beria

Production: Magnet Films, Alief,  39 Films, Wide Management

Co-executive Production: 1991 Productions

International Sales:  Wide Management

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PASSAGE

Feature film in post-production

Lia, a world-weary and financially struggling former schoolteacher has promised to fulfill her recently deceased sister’s last wish – to find her long lost daughter Tekla. Together with Tekla’s former neighbor and friend, an out-of-luck young man called Achi, she embarks on an emotive journey forming an unlikely and involuntary bond as they navigate the backstreets of Istanbul together in search of Tekla.

Director: Levan Akin

Production: French Quarter Film, Easy Rider Films, Bir Film, 1991 Productions, Adomeit Film

Countries: Sweden, France, Turkey, Georgia, Denmark

9-Month Contract

Feature Documentary in production

When raising a kid as a homeless single mother becomes too hard, Jana decides to become a surrogate mother in order to provide for her own teenage daughter.

Director: Ketevan Vashagashvili

Production: 1991 Productions

Country: Georgia

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Tear Gas

Feature Film in development

Elene and Andro discover each other among thousands of protesters; with the desire to meet one another they stay at a civil demonstration that grows violent and gets dispersed by rubber bullets and tear gas.

Director: Uta Beria

Production: 1991 Productions, Magnet Films, Tripode Productions

Country: Georgia, France

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Berliner

Feature Documentary in development

A middle-aged Georgian woman working in Berlin as a German language interpreter guides us through the lives of criminals and refugees from Post-Soviet countries for whom she translates.

Director: Anna Khazaradze

Production: 1991 Productions

Country: Georgia, Germany

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