The last feature film by Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was killed in early April in Mariupol in Ukraine where he shot it, will be shown outside the competition at the Cannes Film Festival, announced on Thursday.
Mariupolis 2WHO shows life going on under bombs and shows tragic pictures that bring hopewas added to the film ‘s official slate, just days from the opening of 75at Cannes Film Festival on May 17. The film will be released on May 19 and 20.
The whole program of the festival will have the war in Ukraine as a backdrop, which is inevitable in everyone’s mindaccording to its general delegate Thierry Frémaux.
Two generations of filmmakers from Ukraine were present, along with regular Sergei Loznitsa for The Natural History of Destructionto the destruction of German cities by Allied forces during World War II, but also the young Maksim Nakonechnyi for Bachennya Metelyka in the category of Un certain regard.
A tribute to the director
Mantas Kvedaravicius, to whom we owe Barzakh (2011), mariupolis (2016) at Parthenon (2019), was killed while trying to leave Mariupol, a port city in southeastern Ukraine.
In 2022, he returned to Ukraine, to Donbass, in the midst of the war, to find the people he had met and captured between 2014 and 2015. After his death, his production house and the people who worked with him made of every effort to continue delivering his work, his insights, his filmsrefers to the festival in its press release.
His fiancée Hanna Bilobrova, who was with him, was able to return the photos taken there and combined them with Dounia Sichov, the editor of Mantaswe added.
Declared the latter super excited to announce projection. Mantas, thank youhe wrote on Twitter.
His previous film, Mariupolis (2016), told the story of a city under siege.
Born in 1976, Mantas Kvedaravicius made a name for himself in this film, which was shot in Mariupol and shown for the first time at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016.
Also a doctor of anthropology, Mantas Kvedaravicius wanted to testify as a filmmaker, as much as possible from the haste and haste of the media and of the political worldaccording to the press release.
Source: Radio-Canada
