| Format | DCP |
|---|---|
| Duration | 91 min |
| Year | 2021 |
| Original Language | Georgian |
| Subtitles | English, German |
| Country | Switzerland, Germany, Georgia |
| ISAN | 0000-0005-AA30-0000-3-0000-0000-S |
Taming the Garden
A film by Salomé Jashi
Synopsis
A powerful man, who is also the former prime minister of Georgia, has developed an exquisite hobby. He collects century old trees along Georgia’s coastline. He commissions his men to uproot them and bring them to his private garden. Some of these trees are as tall as 15-floor-buildings. And in order to transplant a tree of such dimensions some other trees are chopped down, electric cables are shifted and new roads are paved through mandarin plantations.
The film moves the concept of uprooting from its metaphorical meaning into an oppressive, tangible and yet surreal reality.
«Not just because the images are breathtaking. It lays out a complicated argument about ecology, economics, compromise, class, and humanity’s need to conquer and/or “tame” nature without resorting to an attack via polemics.»
More Infos
- Credits
Directed and Written by
Salomé Jashi
Producers
Vadim Jendreyko, Erik Winker, Martin Roelly, Salomé Jashi
Directors of Photography
Goga Devdariani, Salomé Jashi
Editor
Chris Wright
Sound Design
Philippe Ciompi
Music Supervisor
Celia Stroom
Researcher
Tamara Mshvenieradze
Line Producer
Pascal Moor
Associate Producers
Hercli Bundi, Susanne Guggenberger, Ümit Uludag, Anna Dziapshipa
A Coproduction of
Mira Film, CORSO Film, Sakdoc Film
Financially supported by
Federal Office for Culture Switzerland (FOC), Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Eurimages, Fachausschuss Film und Medienkunst BS / BL, Georgian National Film Center, IDFA Bertha Fund, Succès Passage Antenne, SRG SSR
- Technical Details
- Festivals
Slow Film Fest
December 08, 2022 - December 11, 2022
Le Grand Bivouac - Festival du film documentaire et du livre
October 17, 2022 - October 23, 2022
Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (INFF)
October 15, 2022 - October 18, 2022
EKOFILM - International Environmental Film Festival
October 12, 2022 - October 15, 2022
Beholders; documentary dialogues
October 05, 2022 - October 09, 2022
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam
October 05, 2022 - October 05, 2022
REEF - Rural Encounters on Environment and Films
September 01, 2022 - September 04, 2022
Ceau, Cinema!
July 14, 2022 - July 17, 2022
Euganea Film Festival
June 17, 2022 - July 04, 2022
Short Waves Festival
June 14, 2022 - June 19, 2022
Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental
June 01, 2022 - June 12, 2022
Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival
June 01, 2022 - June 15, 2022
Resilienze Festival
May 26, 2022 - May 29, 2022
Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival
May 26, 2022 - June 05, 2022
One World Romania Film Festival
May 13, 2022 - May 22, 2022
Forum des images
April 26, 2022 - April 26, 2022
NRFF - The Nouveaux Regards Film Festival
April 06, 2022 - April 10, 2022
Rencontres du Cinéma Européen de Vannes
March 30, 2022 - April 05, 2022
IFF Febiofest Bratislava
March 16, 2022 - March 22, 2022
Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival
February 27, 2022 - February 27, 2022
Filmer le Travail Film Festival
February 04, 2022 - February 13, 2022
Trieste Film Festival
January 21, 2022 - January 30, 2022
Solothurner Filmtage
January 19, 2022 - January 06, 2022
Recontres des Films Femmes Méditerranée
December 24, 2021 - November 30, 2021
Docs in Exile Film Festival
December 15, 2021 - December 19, 2022
Camera Obscura
December 10, 2021 - December 12, 2021
Kathmandu International Mountain Flim Festival
December 09, 2021 - November 13, 2021
Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Mexico City
December 06, 2021 - December 15, 2021
Tbilisi International Film Festival
December 05, 2021 - December 12, 2021
Zurich Human Rights Film Festival
December 02, 2021 - December 07, 2021
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival
December 01, 2021 - December 17, 2021
Muestra de Cine da Lanzarote
November 25, 2021 - December 05, 2021
La otra Actualidad Madrid
November 25, 2021 - November 25, 2021
Umeå European Film Festival
November 24, 2021 - November 28, 2021
Ecocup Green Documentary Film Festival
November 19, 2021 - November 28, 2021
IDFA
November 17, 2021 - November 28, 2021
Panorama of the European Film
November 17, 2021 - November 27, 2021
International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam
November 17, 2021 - November 28, 2021
Terravia Film Festival
November 16, 2021 - November 20, 2021
Kasseler DocFest
November 16, 2021 - November 21, 2021
Cork International Film Festival
November 13, 2021 - November 21, 2021
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
November 12, 2021 - November 28, 2021
ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Films of Bilbao
November 12, 2021 - November 19, 2021
Cámara Lúcida Festival, Ecuador
November 11, 2021 - November 19, 2021
Duisburger Filmwoche
November 10, 2021 - November 14, 2021
Festival Interférences, Lyon
November 10, 2021 - November 21, 2021
Montreal International Documentary Festival
November 10, 2021 - November 21, 2021
VERZIO – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Budapest
November 09, 2021 - November 21, 2021
Cork International Film Festival
November 05, 2021 - November 21, 2021
Glimmerglass Film Days: Rise
November 04, 2021 - November 11, 2021
Dharamshala International Film Festival
November 04, 2021 - November 10, 2021
Sydney Film Festival
November 03, 2021 - November 29, 2021
DokuBaku International Film Festival
November 03, 2021 - November 07, 2021
IFF Message to Man
November 03, 2021 - November 08, 2021
International Film Festival Message to Man, Saint Petersburg
October 29, 2021 - November 04, 2021
New Zealand International Film Festival
October 28, 2021 - November 04, 2021
CINETEKTON! Festival Internacional de Cine y Arquitectura, Puebla
October 26, 2021 - November 26, 2021
West Lake International Documentary Festival, Hangzhou
October 22, 2021 - October 25, 2021
Taiwan Human Right Film Festival
October 22, 2021 - October 31, 2021
São Paulo International Film Festival
October 21, 2021 - November 03, 2021
Bergen International Film Festival
October 20, 2021 - October 28, 2021
Festival Protesta, Barcelona
October 15, 2021 - October 24, 2021
Festival Image de Ville, Marseille
October 14, 2021 - October 24, 2021
Friday Harbor Film Festival
October 14, 2021 - October 01, 2021
Film Festival Human Rights Lugano
October 13, 2021 - October 17, 2021
Inconvenient Films
October 13, 2021 - October 31, 2021
Cormorán Film Fest, A Coruña
October 11, 2021 - October 17, 2021
Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia
October 11, 2021 - October 17, 2021
Vermont International Film Festival
October 08, 2021 - October 17, 2021
Tacoma Film Festival
October 07, 2021 - October 14, 2021
Majordocs, Palma
October 05, 2021 - October 09, 2021
Golden Apricot International Film Festival, Yerevan
October 03, 2021 - October 10, 2021
Magnificent 7 Film Festival
October 02, 2021 - October 06, 2021
Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata Festi-Freak
October 01, 2021 - October 17, 2021
CinemAmbiente — Environmental Film Festival
October 01, 2021 - October 06, 2021
VIFF – Vancouver International Film Festival
October 01, 2021 - October 10, 2021
Qara Film Festival
September 30, 2021 - October 09, 2021
RIFF – Reykjavik International Film Festival
September 30, 2021 - October 10, 2021
Filmfest Sundsvall
September 29, 2021 - October 10, 2021
International Film Festival ELBE DOCK
September 28, 2021 - October 03, 2021
Lunenburg Doc Fest
September 23, 2021 - September 29, 2021
Underhill Fest
September 22, 2021 - September 30, 2021
Visioni dal Mondo
September 16, 2021 - September 19, 2021
Cinemed – Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier
September 15, 2021 - October 23, 2021
dokKa, Karlsruhe
September 14, 2021 - September 19, 2021
BIAFF – Batumi International Art House Film Festival
September 13, 2021 - September 20, 2021
CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival
September 10, 2021 - September 18, 2021
Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival
September 09, 2021 - September 16, 2021
Open City Documentary Festival, London
September 08, 2021 - September 14, 2021
Astra Film Festival, Sibiu
September 06, 2021 - September 12, 2021
FilmArtFestival Mecklenburg-Pomerania
August 31, 2021 - September 05, 2021
Espoo Ciné International Film Festival
August 23, 2021 - August 29, 2021
MakeDox Festival, Macedonia
August 19, 2021 - August 26, 2021
CinéDOC Tbilisi
August 14, 2021 - September 14, 2021
Dokufest, Kosovo
August 06, 2021 - August 14, 2021
Melbourne International Film Festival
August 05, 2021 - August 22, 2021
Locarno Film Festival
August 04, 2021 - August 14, 2021
Aegean Film Festival
July 18, 2021 - August 02, 2021
Rooftop Films Summer Series
July 09, 2021 - July 09, 2021
BOZAR Cinemá. German Festival Films
July 03, 2021 - July 03, 2021
DocAviv
July 01, 2021 - July 10, 2021
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
June 24, 2021 - July 04, 2021
ZagrebDox
June 13, 2021 - June 10, 2021
San Francisco DocFest
June 03, 2021 - June 20, 2021
Seoul Eco Film Festival
June 03, 2021 - June 09, 2021
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
June 02, 2021 - June 06, 2021
Docville International Documentary Film Festival
June 01, 2021 - June 11, 2021
FICMEC Festival Internacional de Cine Medioambiental de Canarias
May 26, 2021 - June 05, 2021
Étonnants Voyageurs - Festival International du Livre & du Film
May 22, 2021 - May 24, 2021
The DocYard
May 21, 2021 - May 27, 2021
DocsBarcelona International Documentary Film Festival
May 18, 2021 - May 30, 2021
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
May 10, 2021 - June 06, 2021
DOK.fest München
May 05, 2021 - May 23, 2021
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
April 29, 2021 - May 09, 2021
New Directors/New Films (ND/NF)
April 28, 2021 - May 08, 2021
Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY)
April 24, 2021 - April 27, 2021
CPH:DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Festival)
April 21, 2021 - May 12, 2021
Docs Against Gravity
April 21, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Sun Valley Film Festival
April 14, 2021 - April 18, 2021
Hong Kong International Film Festival
April 08, 2021 - April 11, 2021
Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
March 26, 2021 - April 04, 2021
ByDesign Festival
March 19, 2021 - March 28, 2021
Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM
March 18, 2021 - March 28, 2021
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
March 18, 2021 - March 29, 2021
Cinéma du réel - festival international du film documentaire
March 12, 2021 - March 21, 2021
Berlinale Forum - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
March 01, 2021 - March 05, 2021
Sundance Film Festival
January 28, 2021 - February 03, 2021
- Awards
Docudays UA - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2021
Main Prize
CineEco Seia Festival
Grand Prix Environment CineEco
CineFest Miskolc
Winner of the CineDocs Film Competition
Cinetekton
Best Feature Documentary
CinéDOC Tbilisi
Special Jury Mention
Cinéma du Réel - festival international du film documentaire 2021
Mention Spéciale (Prix du Jury des Jeunes)
FICMEC - Festival Internacional de Cine Medioambiental de Canarias 2021
Best Feature Documentary
FICUNAM - Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM 2021
Best Feature Film
Golden Apricot International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Award of the Regional Panorama
Festival Interférences
Jury Award
Film Art Festival Mecklenburg-Pomerania
Best Documentary
Umeå European Film Festival
Film Prize "Rödspoven"
IFF Message to Man
Best Documentary
International Filmfestival ELBE DOCK
Special Mention
Visioni dal Mondo
International Jury Special Mention
Majordocs
Special Jury Award for Artistic Achievement
Qara Film Festival
Special Jury Prize
Tacoma Film Festival
Best Cinematography
Tbilisi International Film Festival
Best Documentary
Underhill Fest
Best Film in International Competition
