Salomé Jashi is a Georgian filmmaker. She graduated from Tbilisi State University and the Caucasus School of Journalism and Media and at first worked for the Georgian television channel Rustavi 2. At the same time, Salomé Jashi created video installations. She then studied documentary filmmaking at London University. Her first film Their Helicopter. Bakhmaro (2011) received an honorable mention at the Leipzig DOK. The Dazzling Light of Sunset (201) received First Prize at the Visions du Réel Festival (Regard Neuf competition). Her latest short subject The Tower received the ADAMI Media Prize.
Taming the Garden
Taming the Garden follows uprooted trees destined for the garden of Eden a wealthy man wants to create. With each uprooting, tensions erupt between the workers and Georgian villagers. The film highlights the ease with which a people’s roots can be destroyed to the benefit of one individual, disconnected from the surrounding nature they appropriate.