Lithuanian documentary filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius, 45, was killed in Ukraine, 15min.lt reported in the early hours on Sunday.
According to 15min.lt sources, a rocket hit Kvedaravičius‘ car in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The man was immediately taken to hospital, but did not survive.
Meanwhile, LRT sources report that the filmmaker was killed in the city of Donetsk.
The Ukrainian news agency UNIAN also reported the death of the Lithuanian filmmaker, quoting Russian film director Vitaly Mansky. On Facebook, he wrote that Kvedaravičius “died with a camera in his hand”.
Kvedaravičius made his name with Barzakh, a documentary film about war-ravaged Chechnya that premiered in 2011 in Berlin and was awarded an Amnesty International prize as well as the Silver Crane, Lithuania’s national award.
In 2016, his documentary Mariupol was selected for the Berlin Film Festival. In 2019, his first fiction film Parthenon played in the Venice Film Festival.
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