Taming The Garden

Local title
Aia taltsutamine
Original title
Grosser Baum auf Reise
Director
Salomé Jashi
Year
2021

A powerful man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast and has them excavated to collect them for his private garden. In order to transplant trees of such dimensions, the landscape surrounding them is ripped apart and the people living around them are forced to adapt to the disruption.

As the film follows this process, it portrays the needs and values of today’s Georgian society and reflects on the theme of forced migration, where “uprooting” is more than a metaphor.

Director
Salomé Jashi
Screenwriter
Salomé Jashi
Producer
Vadim Jendreyko, Erik Winker, Martin Roelly, Salomé Jashi
Director of Photography
Goga Devdariani, Salomé Jashi
Editing
Chris Wright
Production
Mira Film, Sakdoc film, Corso Film
Music
Celia Stroom
World sales
Syndicado Film Sales
Runtime
Language
Subtitles
Other festivals
Sundance, Vancouver, Hong Kong
Director
Salomé Jashi

Salomé Jashi (b. 1981)

The Dazzling Light of Sunset (2016, doc), Taming the Garden (2021, doc)

European green capital 2023 ENVIRONMENTAL FILM PROGRAMME

Screenings

Hall 2 Kino Artis
Screening011602 / Aia taltsutamine
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Screening032104 / Aia taltsutamine
SubtitlesEnglish
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