Motviniereba
Taming the Garden
The opening shot of 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,
privately owned by a wealthy man 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 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. (Sundance Film Festival)
Films - Selection
Motviniereba (Taming the Garden, 2021, doc) - Daisis miziduloba (The Dazzling Light of Sunset, 2016, doc) - Bakhmaro (2011, doc)
Motviniereba (Taming the Garden, 2021, doc) - Daisis miziduloba (The Dazzling Light of Sunset, 2016, doc) - Bakhmaro (2011, doc)
Crossing Europe VOD · Competition Documentary
2021
Salomé
Jashi
Georgia / Germany
/ Switzerland 2021
color
92 minutes
Georgian / Mingrelian
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay Salomé Jashi
Cinematography Salomé Jashi, Goga Devdariani
Editing Chris Wright
Sound/Sounddesign
Philippe Ciompi
Producer(s) Vadim Jendreyko, Erik Winker, Martin Roelly, Salomé Jashi
Production
Mira Film, Corso Film, Sakdoc Film
World Sales
Syndicado Film Sales
Austrian Premiere
World Premiere
Sundance Film Festival 2021
Crossing Europe VOD-Premiere
06.06. - 06.07.2021, online
at KINO VOD CLUB.
More details on the VOD program HERE
(only available for streaming in Austria)