Join us for Taming the Garden, Georgian filmmaker Salome Jashi's feature length documentary, which centres upon the efforts of billionaire and former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili in uprooting mature trees from villages and communities along the Black Sea coast to be transported to and replanted at the site of his privately owned Shekvetili Dendrological Park.

As Jashi has said: 'Some time ago, the entire country of Georgia witnessed a surreal scene – a large tree floating in the sea. That was when we learned that the most powerful man in the country had a new passion – to own century-old trees on his private estate... I embarked on filming this process as Georgia’s whole coastline was involved in implementing one man’s desire. I wanted to explore what was behind this mesmerizingly strange image; to tell about the ambition of a powerful man, who alters landscapes, moves trees, leaves witnesses perplexed – all for the sake of his pleasure.'