Taming the Garden
2022
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Taming the Garden
2022
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Georgia’s former prime minister has found a unique hobby. He collects century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast. At a great expense and inconvenience, these ancient giants are uprooted from their lands to be transplanted in his private garden.
Countries:
GE
Languages:
Georgian
Runtime:
1hrs 32min
Status:
Released
Release date:
2022-01-28
Release format:
Streaming
— Jan 19, 2022
[HotDocs] In its quiet poetics, in the contemplation of the images without interviews or narration, this is a deeply ecological but also deeply political film. Through the forced migration of centuries-old trees, brushstrokes are drawn on Georgian society, on the concentration of power in billionaires like Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose lack of respect for the environment represents the profile of the oligarchy.