The 45-year-old war terrain specialist was killed trying to leave the southeastern Ukrainian port city besieged by Russian forces.
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His latest movie 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. “The Russian occupiers killed the Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, author of the documentary “Mariupolis”, while trying to leave Mariupol”said on Twitter the press agency of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
The death of the documentary filmmaker was also announced by the Russian director Vitali Manski, founder of the respected Moscow festival Artdocfest to which Mantas Kvedaravicius had already been invited. “Our friend and Artdocfest participant, Lithuanian documentary filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, was murdered today in Mariupol, camera in hand, in this evil shit war against the whole world”he wrote on Facebook.
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Mantas Kvedaravicius, 45, studied at Vilnius University before earning a degree in social anthropology at Cambridge. On Twitter, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry confirmed his death and said “vsshocked to learn that documentary filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius was killed in Mariupol, where he was documenting the atrocities of the war in Russia”.
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.