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MdiVanity Fair
The untold true story of the scandalous Mdivani family
What do Chanel, Sherlock Holmes, Dalí, and the world’s richest girl have in common?... they were all part of the Mdivani saga.
The five Mdivani siblings – Nina, Serge, David, Roussy, and Alexis – emerged from obscurity to become the common thread woven through the lives of some of the world's most influential figures. They didn’t merely infiltrate beau monde – they became its pulse!
From their beginnings as penniless refugees of revolution-torn Georgia, they catapulted onto the world stage during the ’20s and ’30s – their names whispered at every high society soirée and breathlessly scrutinized by the flourishing tabloid press. In an era of rapid change, boundless opportunity, and the rise of live broadcast media, the Mdivanis personified the zeitgeist – they were clickbait before the word even existed.
Their story spans four continents, eleven weddings, seven divorces, five spectacular deaths, and millions of dollars won and lost. Their lifestyle inspired haute cuisine and haute couture, theatre, music, art, popular culture – even horticulture.
In addition to stratospheric global media attention during their lifetimes, Dale Carnegie analyzed the ‘Mdivani phenomenon’ in his landmark How to Win Friends and Influence People; F. Scott Fitzgerald immortalized them as a distinct species of ‘celebrity’; and they even came up in a U.S. congressional hearing. And yet today, their names have all but vanished.
This saga not only tells an unbelievable true story – it also holds a mirror to the celebrity culture we grapple with today.
Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Genre: Drama
Stage of development: Financing
Estimated budget: 9.700.000 euro
The Tea Master of Chakvi
In 1893, Lao Jin Jao, a reclusive Chinese tea master, steps onto the windswept shores of Chakvi, Georgia, summoned by a Russian merchant with dreams of a tea empire. Armed with ancient horticultural secrets and a collection of ornate porcelain vases etched with cryptic inscriptions, Lao Jin Jao battles unforgiving terrain, cultural mistrust, and his own haunting past to establish Adjara’s first tea nursery and processing factory. As his fragrant tea plants flourish, they weave unlikely bonds among skeptical locals, Russian traders, and Ottoman travelers, creating a vibrant tapestry of East and West. But when the tides of revolution and betrayal threaten to uproot his legacy, Lao Jin Jao faces an impossible choice: safeguard the land that embraced him or return to a homeland that no longer feels like home. The Tea Master of Chakvi is a lush, poignant epic of sacrifice, resilience, and the delicate art of cultivating hope in foreign soil.
Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Genre: Drama
Stage of development: Financing
Estimated budget: 3.870.000 euro
Shadows of Absence
In a crumbling coastal city scarred by war, Irina, a 35-year-old woman gifted with the ability to see and hear the dead, tends to the deceased while wrestling with their restless spirits. From Grandma Mari, who lingers to fuss over her funeral and her wayward grandson Mamuka, to a guilt-ridden taxi driver and a boy lost to tragedy, each spirit reveals unfulfilled dreams and regrets. As Irina navigates this decaying world of crime and despair, she clings to the hope of reuniting with her lover, Otar, a soldier lost to war. When she finds his broken body among her charges, only to later see him alive—or seemingly so—her grip on reality frays. Caught between the voices of the dead and a city spiraling into chaos, Irina steps into the sea, chasing solace amidst distant explosions. Shadows of Absence is a haunting, lyrical drama that melds magical realism with stark human truths, probing the enduring ache of love and loss in a fractured world.
Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Genre: Drama
Stage of development: Financing
Estimated budget: 1.580.000 euro
Between the Walls
Ioane escapes from the dark of mining tunnels to city and finds a new job repairing an old historical house’s roof. Everything seems to be all right: kind boss, clear sky above his head missed so much and a charming ballerina, who he meets at the roof. Dark and tunnels seem to be Ioane’s fate. By accident he falls down from the roof between two walls and gets stuck in a gloom. Guidelines guided rescuers, emergency and police crews are engaged in a bureaucratic chaos. All their efforts to save a guy seem comic and tragic at the same time. After several ineffective attempts, they seem to forget Ioane at all. For some time, everything seems peaceful but this peace threatens to become a nightmare.
Director: Shalva Shengeli
Genre: Drama
Stage of development: Financing
Estimated budget: 500.000 euro
beqa
Becka(18), a talented rugby player, lives with his mother in the Karaleti refugee settlement near the town of Gori. He was 9 years old, when Russian troops invaded Georgia and his father was killed in artillery fire. Becka and his mother fled occupied village to survive.
Recently, he is was called up to U20 national rugby team training camp, which should determine whether he’ll be a part of U20 Rugby World Cup squad or not. He has a dream to be a professional rugby player. Becka hopes to get an attention from international rugby scouts during the World Cup and escape the refugee settlement. To train, Becka rides 50 km by bicycle to Gori rugby stadium every day.
Becka accidentally discovers that his cousin Lasha(13), who also lives in refugee settlement, is a member of juvenile gang and is engaged into shop robberies. Lasha knows that by law, kids under the age of 14 cannot be imprisoned.
Becka's attempt to remove Lasha from the gang is followed by an unexpected development and threatens to destroy all his dreams and hopes.
Director: Vano Burduli
Genre: Drama
Stage of development: Financing
Estimated budget: 700.000 euro
A cry of silence
A former opera singer Archil (60) decides to move his forefathers’ house from the Russian occupied territories in Abkhazia. He with the assistance of his old Abkhazian friend transports the wooden logs to his new place at the lake.
Hoping for some help, he contacts his sons – Vakhtang (a drunkard old rocker living in Belgium,) and Badri (a married architect living in France). His wife Natela died during the war. She was his one and only love. Archil tries to return his past, family and traditions which are all gone from his life, by restoring his old house. Notwithstanding the difficulties, the sons are back to homeland to restore the house but the conflict arises between father and sons. He can’t establish a contact with his sons. They seem to have different values. Archil is pushed to the limits so much that he even tries to suicide. But his little grandchild gives him back a desire to live on.
Director: Levan Tutberidze
Genre: Drama
Stage of development: Financing
Estimated budget: 900.000 euro
FIshing
Natalia and Alex, married couple in their late 30-es, lead ordinary happy family life, before Alex goes for fishing with friends. Natalia is visited by police, looking for Alex, who is accused, together with friends, in group rape of a prostitute at the lake. Men are hiding, while wives try to protect their husbands from punishment. Natalia decides to find out the truth, stand next to Alex to rescue his life and family from the shame.
Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili
Genre: Drama
Stage of development: Development
Estimated budget: 700.000 euro