KEEP SMILING

  • Rusudan Chkonia
  • Fiction
  • 2011
  • 1h30

“It’s all about soul beauty, it’s a beauty contest of Mothers, so dear Georgian mothers please keep on smiling.”
Georgia, Tbilisi, 2010… Mother’s beauty contest …winner will get an apartment and 25000$ …
Ten mothers, with seven of them belonging to the poorest population layer, will desperately try to win ….IN A WAY, IT’S A BIT LIKE “HUNGER GAMES” WITH HIGH HEALS AND SWIMWEAR! (Variety Review by Leslie Felperin)

Screenplay
  • Rusudan Chkonia
Photography
  • Jean-Pierre Bloc
  • Rusudan Chkonia
  • Levan Kukhashvili
Sound
  • Paata Godziashvili
Set design
  • Sopo Bazghadze
  • Mamuka Esadze
  • Dima Arsanis
  • Giga Iakobashvili
Costumes
  • George Nadiradze
Production
  • Ex Nihilo
  • Nicolas Blanc
Coproduction
  • NIKÊ studio
  • SAMSA Films
  • ALVY Production A Georgian French Luxembourg Coproduction
Distribution ZED
Theatrical release 14/08/2013
International seller Doc & Film International
Video editor ZED