The director, a war terrain specialist, was 45 years old. His documentary “Mariupolis” had been premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016.
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His last film “Mariupolis” precisely told the story of a besieged city, it is in the same place that he lost his life. Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius was killed on Saturday April 2 in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. “Our friend and Artdocfest participant, Lithuanian documentary filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, was murdered today in Mariupol, camera in hand, in this shitty war of Evil against the whole world”Russian director Vitaly Mansky, founder of the Artdocfest documentary film festival, wrote on Facebook.
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Mantas Kvedaravicius, 45, studied at Vilnius University before earning a degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University. In a tweet, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry confirmed his death. “Shocked to learn that documentary filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius was killed in Mariupol, where he was documenting the atrocities of war in Russia,” can we read.
Shocked by the news that award-winning documentary filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius was killed in #Mariupolwhere he was documenting #Russia‘s war atrocities. His previous film Mariupol (2016) told the story of a besieged city with a strong will to live. Big loss for &the . pic.twitter.com/lKjUDcfZga
— Lithuania MFA | #StandWithUkraine (@LithuaniaMFA) April 3, 2022
His documentary “Mariupolis” premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016.