Taming the Garden

Taming the Garden

With astonishing style,”Taming the Garden” tracks the surreal uprooting of ancient trees from their Georgian locales. Their destination lies miles away…

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The opening shot of filmmaker Salomé Jashi’s striking environmental tale captures a tree as tall as a 15-story building floating on a barge across the vast Black Sea. Its destination lies within a garden countless miles away, privately owned by a billionaire whose passion resides in the removal, and subsequent replanting of foreign trees into his own man-made Eden. With astonishing cinematic style,”Taming the Garden” tracks the surreal uprooting of ancient trees from their Georgian locales. With each removal, tensions flare between workers and villagers. Some see financial incentives – new roads, handsome fees,while others angrily mourn the loss of what was assumed an immovable monolith of their town’s collective history and memory. With a steady and shrewdly observant eye, Jashi documents a single man’s power over Earth’s natural gardens: how majestic living artifacts of a country’s identity can so effortlessly become uprooted by individuals with no connection to the nature they now claim as their own.

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  • projection time:
    90 min.
  • country/year:
    Switzerland, Germany, Georgia / 2021
  • director:
    Salomé Jashi
  • pictures:
    Goga Devdariani, Salomé Jashi
  • production:
    Vadim Jendreyko, Erik Winker, Martin Roelly, Salomé Jashi / Vinca Film, TILT Production
  • awards :
    2021 – Sundance FF

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