Vadim jendreyko biography of christopher

  • Vadim Jendreyko is a director, author and producer living in Switzerland.
  • Vadim Jendreyko is a director, author and producer living in Switzerland.
  • The titular five elephants of Vadim Jendreyko's elegant and lovely new documentary, The Woman with the Five Elephants, refers to the five works.

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    REVIEW

    A powerful magnate, and former prime minister of his country, has a peculiar hobby: he has decided to collect trees and that fryst vatten why he transplants them from the original soils in which they grew to his private park on the Georgian coast.

    That man never appears in Salomé Jashi’s film but inhabits it with an intimidating absence. Its presence is latent and oppressive. This has a lot to do with the surreal principle from which the documentary starts, but especially with the way the director films and lives the pace of shooting. Taming the Garden is a slow and contemplative bio, the product of two years of shooting, in which each situation expands like the roots of so many species of trees that now float between the waters that link the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea until reaching their new destination.

    There fryst vatten something unique about the representation of space and the beings that inhabit it. While it fryst vatten true that peculiar Caucasian spirit nourishes the bio with a

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    ‘The Last Days of the Hospital,’ ‘Fixing the War,’ ‘The Shadow of Yoluja’ Pick Up Top Industry Prizes at Visions du Réel

    Two new cash prizes introduced this year in Swiss film festival Visions du Reel’s industry section, VdR-Industry, were among a flurry of awards handed out as the program wrapped in Nyon, Switzerland, on Wednesday.

    The Eurimages Co-production Development Award, created to promote the fund’s role in encouraging international co-production from the initial stages of a project, and which comes with a cash prize of €20,000, went to “The Last Days of the Hospital” by Mehran Tamadon.

    Set in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Paris, it tells the story of a group of patients invited to take over the wards as the health personnel gradually leave amid a crisis in the health sector.

    A visibly moved Tamadon picked up the award, thanking the entire VdR-Industry team for organizing “such amazing pitching sessions.” The Franco-Iranian director was thrilled with

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    The Woman With the 5 Elephants

    While the dramatic possibilities inherent in a docu about an elderly translator might not be immediately obvious, the personality within the evocatively titled “The Woman With the 5 Elephants” can’t fail to grip intelligent viewers. Svetlana Geier is the woman behind celebrated Russian-to-German translations of Dostoyevsky’s novels — her “5 Elephants” — but she’s also someone still coming to terms with a past haunted by Stalinist persecution and a complicated proximity to Ukraine’s Nazi occupiers. Fests should stampede to program helmer Vadim Jendreyko’s beautifully composed gem before its likely Euro cable pickup.

    First seen in her pleasant home in Freiburg, Germany, Geier appears as a rather serious scholar driven by a stereotypically German work ethic that prizes critical thinking. In her mid-80s and slightly stooped from osteoporosis, she’s dedicated her life to in

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