Smiling Georgia – feature documentary

Director: Luka Beradze
Producers: Nino Chichua, Anna Khazaradze
Co-Producers: Eva Blondiau, Sophio Bendiashvili, Bacho Meburishvili
Countries: Georgia, Germany

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.