Mantas Kvedaravicius, a 45-year-old documentary filmmaker from Lithuania, died while trying to get out of the city covered by the blockade.. Previously, he made films dedicated to the war in eastern Ukraine, in particular the film Mariupolis, which subsequently received international recognition at the Berlin Film Festival.. Director Vitaly Mansky announced the death of the artist.

“Our friend, Artdocfest participant, Lithuanian documentary maker Mantas Kvedaravicius, today (April 2 – ed.. ) was killed in Mariupol with a camera in his hands in this shitty war of evil against the whole world. I found several photos where Mantas and I at Artdocfest in Riga in 2016 are discussing the place of a documentary filmmaker in the war. Mantas was more and more silent and thought,” said Mansky.

Filming for Mariupolis began in the spring of 2015, the idea was born when the author was heading to Odessa to work on his other film, Stasis.. He did not come up with the idea of \u200b\u200bfixing a Greek settlement in eastern Ukraine, near this city. Note that the Greeks in this city are one of the national minorities with a long history of settlement in the region.. The city is called the Hellenistic center in Ukraine.

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The Lithuanian artist dedicated his painting, first of all, to life in a southern Ukrainian city in a crisis.