Films by Vadim Jendreyko

Switzerland, Germany, Georgia 2021, 91 min
by Salomé Jashi

The opening shot of filmmaker Salomé Jashi’s striking environmental tale captures a tree as tall as a 15-story building floating on a barge across the vast Black Sea. Its destination lies within a garden countless miles away, privately owned by a wealthy and anonymous man whose passion resides in the removal, and subsequent replanting, of foreign trees into his own man-made Eden.With astonishing cinematic style,Taming the Garden tracks the surreal uprooting of ancient trees from their Georgian l

Germany 2010, 92 min
by Vadim Jendreyko

Singing in endless hallways. Behind the shelf with the wigs, the blood-filled refrigerator, a flock of elves chirp through the canteen, drums, trumpets, and the ubiquitous loudspeaker voices. Murmurings, big words, absurd dialogues, and every gesture counts.Underneath, down by the sewage system, enormous lifting equipment, a jubilant choir floats to the surface: THE SINGING CITY. The film uses Calixto Bieito’s production of Parsifal in Stuttgart as a pretext for exploring the complex universe of

Germany 2009, 93 min
by Vadim Jendreyko

Swetlana Geier is considered the greatest translator of Russian literature into German. She has just concluded her lifework for Zurich’s Ammann publishing house - completing new translations Dostoyevsky’s five great novels - known as the five elephants. Her work is characterised by a great and sensual feeling for language and an uncompromising respect for the writers she translates. Her life has been overshadowed by Europe’s varied history. Together with the film director, the eighty-five-year