Salomé Jashi was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1981. She studied journalism and worked as a reporter for several years before being awarded a British Council scholarship to study documentary filmmaking at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2005. Salomé’s The Dazzling Light of Sunset (2016) was awarded the Main Prize at Visions du Réel’s Regard Neuf Competition as well as at ZagrebDox, Jihlava IDFF, Valdivia IDFF, and several other festivals. An earlier work, Bakhmaro (2011), co-produced with ma.ja.de. filmproduktion and MDR/Arte, received an Honorary Mention for Young Documentary Talent at DOK Leipzig, won Best Central and Eastern European Documentary at Jihlava IDFF, and was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Silver Eye Awards. Salomé is the founder of two production companies: Sakdoc Film and Microcosmos, both producing documentaries and fiction of high artistic quality. She was a fellow of Nipkow Scholarship in 2017 and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2020.