Smiling Georgia – feature documentary

Director: Luka Beradze
Producers: Nino Chichua, Anna Khazaradze, Eva Blondiau, Sophio Bendiashvili
Country: Georgia, Germany

The year 2012, a presidential pre-election campaign “Smiling Georgia '' aims to remove the decayed teeth of elderly people living in Georgia's rural areas, and replace them with good quality dentures. Representatives of the ruling party, dentists and journalists go to villages in red buses and specialists pull out the teeth of the locals. Soon thereafter, the president loses the elections and the new teeth are never provided. The population is left deceived and toothless.