Salomé Jashi
Salome Jashi, born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1981, first worked as a journalist for several years. In 2005, she received a scholarship from the British Council to study documentary film at Royal Holloway, University of London. Upon her return to Georgia, she founded the production company Sakdoc Film. She is the director of Their Helicopter (2006), Speechless (2009), The Leader Is Always Right (2010) and Bakhmaro (2011). Her film, The Dazzling Light of Sunset received the Best First Film Award at Visions du Réel in 2016. In 2021 she directed Taming the Garden, which was selected in many festivals, including the Berlinale. She is drawn to shooting micro-environments. Her visual approach is minimalist, poetic, sensitive and rough.
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Taming The Garden
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 s...
Taming The Garden
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 s...
