Taming the Garden

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2022

1h 32m

Georgian

Documentary

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Taming the Garden

Movie

2022

1h 32m

Georgian

Documentary

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A powerful man, who is also the former prime minister of Georgia, has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-floor buildings, and has them excavated along the Georgian coastline 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.

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Directed By: Salomé Jashi

Written By: Salomé Jashi (Screenplay)

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miguelreina says...

3 years ago

[HotDocs] In its quiet poetics, in the contemplation of the images without interviews or narration, this is a deeply ecological but also deeply political film. Through the forced migration of centuries-old trees, brushstrokes are drawn on Georgian society, on the concentration of power in billionaires like Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose lack of respect for the environment represents the profile of the oligarchy.

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