Lithuanian film director and academic Mantas Kvedaravicius, who captured the escalating conflict in Ukraine in several powerful works, has been reported dead in Mariupol, the Ukrainian city that wa…
Lithuanian film director and academic Mantas Kvedaravicius, who captured
“While trying to leave Mariupol, Russian occupiers killed Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius,” the Ukrainian Defence Ministry tweeted on Saturday. Kvedaravicius was 45. News that Kvedaravicius has been killed by the Russian military — which could not be verified with family members — has prompted an outpour of statements and social media posts mourning the director’s death.
Russian-backed fighters in 2014, Kvedaravicius was previously in Berlin with his 2011 doc “Barzakh,” shot in the Russian region of Chechnya as it recovers from the war with Russia, laying bare
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