Film Screening: Taming the Garden

The film reflects the interaction of power, wealth and the desire to shape nature as one sees fit. The film focuses on an unusual project: a wealthy and influential man in Georgia has centuries-old trees removed from their natural environment in order to relocate them to his private garden. The complex transports leave their mark. In some cases, paths have to be opened up, trees felled or power lines cut.

Taming the Garden documents the physical and emotional effects of these interventions: the use of machines, the destruction of landscapes and the gaps left behind for the local population. But the film also finds a form for the idiosyncratic aesthetics of these processes. The camera not only captures the impressive presence of the trees, but also the weight of the technical equipment. A look at a nature after nature.

Arsenal on Location

With the move from Potsdamer Platz to the silent green cultural quarter, the Arsenal will not have its own cinema until the new cinema is completed in early 2026. And yet the Arsenal will continue to make cinema in 2025. Under the title "Arsenal on Location", film programs are being created in close cooperation with Berlin cultural institutions and arthouse cinemas, nationwide with municipal cinemas and internationally with the Goethe Institute and partner institutions.

(IN GERMAN)