Buy Bye Beauty is a 2001 documentary film by Swedish director and performance artist Pål Hollender.
Although the director firmly asserts that "The film was meant for Swedes and was about Swedes",[1] it caused controversy in Latvia, particularly for its assertion that the actual number of women engaged in the sex industry is substantially higher than the figures given by Latvian authorities.
Latvian President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga called the film "political propaganda", Prime Minister Andris Bērziņš suggested that the country could file an international criminal case against the film's authors, and the Prosecutor-General's Office advised the Interior Ministry to ban Hollender from entering the country.
[1] In late 2010 Hollender in an interview to Latvian newspaper Diena revealed that he has lied in the film.
He confessed that, despite claiming that the women he had sex with were randomly encountered in the streets of Riga, they were in fact professional prostitutes but had signed contracts with Hollender beforehand.