A powerful man, who is also the former prime minister of Georgia, has developed an exquisite hobby. He collects century-old, massive trees along Georgia’s coastline. He commissions his men to uproot them and bring them to his private garden. In order to transplant trees of such dimensions, some other trees are chopped down, electric cables are moved and new roads are paved through mandarin plantations. Salomé Jashi's beautifully observed, thought-provoking and often moving documentary film shows the surreal reality of power.
//INFO: Taming the Garden (Salomé Jashi, GE 2021, 91min). Georgian with English subtitles.