Country in Focus
Taming the Garden
Directed by Salomé Jashi · GE, 2026 · 91 min · original language with English subtitles
A billionaire collects century-old trees; whole forests sail the Black Sea to his private garden.
Along Georgia’s coast, ancient trees are dug out, wrapped like patients and floated on barges to the garden of the country’s most powerful man. Jashi films the surreal logistics — and the villagers who trade their landscape for asphalt roads — in compositions of devastating calm.
The centrepiece of this year’s Country in Focus: Georgia.
Director's note & bio +
An uprooted tree is the most honest monument a society can build to itself.
Credits
DirectionSalomé JashiScreenplaySalomé JashiCinematographyGoga Devdariani, Salomé JashiEditingChris WrightProductionSakdoc Film, Mira Film, Corso Film
Screenings
Ticketing opens 1 August — sold-out screenings are marked here.
Stills & trailer
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