Biography
Salomé Jashi was born on 5 June 1981 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR (today: Georgia). She first studied journalism in Tbilisi and from 2005 documentary film at Royal Holloway College in London. Back in Georgia, she founded the production company Sakdoc Film in 2009. She has made several short and medium-length documentaries, some of which have won awards at festivals.
In 2013, Salomé Jashi received the Robert Bosch Foundation's Film Prize for International Cooperation at the Wiesbaden Film Festival GoEast for her project "The Station" (together with the German producer Urte Amelie Fink). This resulted in her first feature-length documentary film "Im Licht des Sonnenuntergangs" ("The Dazzling Light of Sunset", GE/DE 2016), the portrait of a small television station in a small Georgian town. The film won awards at several international festivals.
Jashi's next documentary, "Taming the Garden", which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (USA) in January 2021, took three years to produce. In it, she follows the transport of a huge, ancient tree that is dug up, roots and all, and shipped across the sea to a stone-rich tree collector. The film was screened at a number of festivals around the world and won several awards. The German theatrical release was in December 2021.