Smiling Georgia
Georgia, Germany2023documentary62'Iluminacja (2024)
Elderly population of village No Name is left teethless after a failed 2012 pre-election campaign "Smiling Georgia". Will their lives change as new promises and guarantees are made to them in sight of 2020 elections?
- directed by
- Luka Beradze
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Luka Beradze got his BA in Directing from Tbilisi Mass Media and Public Communications International Institute in 2011. In 2016 he was commissioned by the Georgian National Broadcaster to direct a short documentary I Went, I Saw, I Fixed It. His fiction short film Sorry For Being Late was selected for the FilmFestival Cottbus 2021 among other festivals. For his first feature documentary Smiling Georgia he was awarded a production grant by the Georgian National Film Center and the German Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. He is currently developing his feature fiction debut.
- cinematography
- Lomer Akhvlediani
- script
- Luka Beradze
- music
- Alexandre Kordzaia
- editing
- Nodar Nozadze, Joseph “soso” Bliadze, Luka Beradze
- production
- Nino Chichua, Anna Khazaradze (1991 Productions)
- Photo
