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Mariupolis 2
Directors
Mantas Kvedaravičius
Producers
Mantas Kvedaravičius
Martin Hampel
Nadia Turincev
Omar El Kadi
Thanassis Karathanos
Uljana Kim
Editors
Dounia Sichov
Sound
Lama Sawaya
Rana Eid
Rob Walker
Sherif Allam
Official Film Website
Contact
The Match Factory GmbH
Domstrasse 60
Cologne 50668, Germany
+49 221 539 709 0
[email protected]
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2022
Lithuania, France, Germany
112 min
Color
In 2022, Mantas Kvedaravičius went back to Ukraine, Mariupol, at the heart of the war, to be with the people he had met and filmed in 2015. Following his death, his producers and collaborators have put all their strength to continue transmitting his work, his vision and his films. Also a PhD in anthropology Mantas Kvedaravičius wished to testify as a filmmaker as far as possible from the agitation of the media and the politicians. With huge force and sensitivity, Mariupolis 2 depicts life as it continues amidst the bombing and it reveals images that convey both tragedy and hope.
Director
Mantas Kvedaravičius (1976-2022) was a Lithuanian-born filmmaker with a degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University. His first documentary film, Barzakh was selected in numerous festivals and won several awards, including the Amnesty International Prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Berlinale in 2011. His following two films, Mariupolis (2016) and Parthenon (2019) were selected at the Berlinale and the Venice International Critics' Week, respectively. Mantas Kvedaravičius was captured and killed by Russian Forces in the end of March, 2022 in Mariupol while documenting Russia's invasion of Ukrainian territory.
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