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The premiere of the film “Mariupole 2” by Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičs killed this spring will take place at the Cannes Film Festival

In 2016, Kvedaravič’s documentary “Mariupole” was released, but the shooting of the new film was interrupted by the director’s death. This work was completed by his bride Hanna Bilobrova.

“Mariupole 2” is a mosaic of everyday moments in a war-torn city, which will be introduced to the Cannes Film Festival by the author’s words, which explain the feelings and thoughts that led him to return to the aggressor-ravaged city.

“Do you know what was most amazing in Mariupol? No one was afraid of death, even though it was already here. Death was already around and no one wanted to die without meaning. People helped each other, even risking their lives. Going out to smoke and talk even then “The money was gone, life had become too short to remember,” the film said in a statement. “Everyone had enough of what it was, the boundaries of the people widened. There was no past, no future, no judgment, no ambiguity. It was a paradise in hell. “

Mants Kvedaravičs was born in 1976 in Biržai, Vilnius University, Faculty of History, and holds a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University and a Doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.

Kvedaravič’s debut film “Barzah”, which tells about Chechnya, made in 2011, has become one of the most award-winning Lithuanian documentaries.

In 2016, Kvedaravič completed his film essay “Mariupol”, but in 2019, his feature film “Parthenon” was released.

At the end of March, the occupiers in Mariupol captured him and shot him, but his body was thrown into the street. His bride, at the risk of her own life, managed to accomplish the almost impossible – to find her in the shooting Mariupol and transfer her to her native Lithuania.


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