Zack Sharf The Cannes Film Festival has announced the final movie from Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius will be screened during the upcoming 2022 edition.
Kvedaravičius was filming a Ukraine-set documentary on location in the city of Mariupol when he was killed in early April amid Russia’s invasion of the country.
That documentary is now titled “Mariupolis 2” and will screen Thursday, May 19 in the Buñuel Theater and Friday, May 20 Agnès Varda Theater.As detailed in a press release from Cannes: “As we know, the Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius, who directed ‘Barzakh’ (2011), ‘Mariupolis’ (2016) and ‘Parthenon’ (2019), was captured and murdered by the Russian army in Mariupol in early April.
His fiancée, Hanna Bilobrova, who was with him at the time, was able to bring back the footage filmed there and edited it with Mantas’ editor Dounia Sichov.
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