Taming the Garden is a 2021 documentary film directed by Salomé Jashi, a former journalist. It was nominated for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Synopsis
The film documents the extreme lengths that Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia's former prime minister and the world's 349th richest billionaire, goes to acquire trees for the construction of the Shekvetili Dendrological Park, an arboretum on his estate on the coast of the Black Sea. ==Release==
Critical responseClaire Armitstead said, "Taming the Garden is far from a balanced two-minute news report; it stands at the junction of documentary and myth". ==Awards and nominations==
Awards and nominations
It was nominated for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. It was nominated for the Audience Award, Insights at the 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival. It won in the international DOCU/WORLD Competition at DocuDays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival. ==Salomé Jashi==