Documentary film about Mariupol by Lithuanian director killed by Rashists wins special award at Cannes

The special Golden Eye award at the Cannes Film Festival, held on May 28, marked the film "Mariupoli 2". It is impossible to compare this work with others. This is a radical, powerful, courageous creation, created from the staff of Mantas Kvedaravičius. The Lithuanian director himself became one of the numerous victims of the Russian aggressor.

Kvedaravichyus arrived in Mariupol in March. He lived with civilians and filmed everything that happened in the occupied city. But the director was captured by rashists. They brutally tortured him and then shot him. The body of the documentary filmmaker from Mariupol was taken out by Anna Belobrova, beloved of Mantas, who was in the besieged city with him.

The material the director was working on was saved. Editor Dunya Sycheva, whom she previously collaborated with Mantas, helped to put the frames into a full-fledged film.

The director shot the first part of the film in 2016. In it, the author showed how Mariupol was affected by the war in the Donbass.

During the presentation of the award at the Cannes Film Festival, Agnieszka Holland (chairman of the jury) announced a minute of silence in respect and memory of all the people who died at the hands of the Russian military.

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