Directed by: Salomé Jashi
Switzerland-Germany-Georgia, 2021, 90'
Festivals: Sundance, Berlinale Forum, Cinéma du réel, Locarno
A powerful and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast and has them excavated to collect them for his private garden. The documentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, and portrays the needs and values of today’s Georgian society, in which the powerful of the day defy not only their fellow countrymen, but nature itself.
Thursday, Nov. 23, Cinema Arta, Arad