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Taming the Garden sees Salomé Jashi continuing her journey through the bowels of her native Georgia. But this time, it’s not the country’s inhabitants who are called to testify, but nature itself, the symbol of a people from secular history who are at risk of disappearing. The film is a visual poem in which the rivalry between nature and humankind undoubtedly escalates, becoming an unevenly matched battle where hope gives way to dismay.
A seemingly “anonymous” yet powerful man has developed an obsessive passion for the centuries-old trees which have become natural monuments in his country over the years. What he wants is to possess them, to collect them and to transform them into obedient slaves submitted to his will. His Machiavellian plan consists of buying these behemoths - some of which are as tall as fifteen-storey buildings - from communities inhabiting the Georgian coast, digging them up and planting them in his
Beginning by Dea Kolumbegashvili
TBILISI: Georgia was strongly affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, which shut down cinemas and film production for most of 2020, but Georgian films received new awards at international festivals. Georgian cinema days and retrospectives were held in Brussels, Tallinn, Split and Lisbon, and Georgia was the Focus Country at the 2020 Trento Film Festival.
Hundreds of films made from 1921 to 1991 are to be returned to Georgia under a deal signed with the film archives of the Russian Federation in 2016. The Georgian National Film Center (GNFC) declared 2020 the year of the 1920s cinema. Despite the epidemic situation, eight films from the 1920s brought from the Russian film archives Gosfilmofond were restored, in cooperation with the National Archives.