Mantas Kvidaravicius is best known for his documentary on the conflict zone “Mariopolis” (Twitter)
Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvidaravicius was killed Saturday in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, where he had long been documenting the besieged port city, colleagues and a news report said, without any official Lithuanian confirmation.
Russian director Vitaly Mansky said on Facebook: “Our friend, the Lithuanian documentary writer Mantas Kvidaravicius, was killed in Mariupol with the camera in his hand in this damned, diabolical war once morest the whole world.”
Kvidaravicius is best known, among other things, for his documentary on the conflict zone “Mariopolis”, which premiered at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival.
The film was filmed in Mariupol, the strategic port in the breakaway region of Donetsk bordering Russia, where pro-Russian militants have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014.
Intervals Lithuanian public radio station (LRT) Kvidaravicius was born in 1976, studied at Vilnius University and received a degree in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University. She added that the death of the director has not yet been officially confirmed.
On the other hand, the BBC reported Russian service via the Telegram app The news of the director’s death. An account belonging to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense was also published Tweet On Twitter, it said that the Russian army had killed the director while trying to get out of Mariupol.
(Archyde.com, The New Arab)
