‘Mariupolis - Mantas Kvedaravicius’

The film will be introduced via Skype by Mantas Kvedaravicius

A man repairs his fishing net and goes out to the bridge. Two trams run into each other – nobody is hurt and the cables are fixed the same day. A small concert is given for factory workers and the sincere performance of a violinist makes them cry. Bombs fall into the sea, no one notices. Everyday life is defined by bomb threats in Mariupol, a city in Ukraine, situated east of Crimea and once populated by Greeks. It is a visually powerful homage to a city in crisis, dedicated to its poets and shoemakers.

Mantas Kvedaravičius – biography

Mantas Kvedaravičius was born in 1976 in Biržai, Lithuania. He studied cultural anthropology at the Vilnius University and the University of Oxford. Now he is making his PhD on the topic of the effects of pain at the University of Cambridge. Since 2006 he has been exploring the tortures and deportations in the Northern Caucasus. His first film about the military conflict in Chechnya was premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.

Filmography: Barzakh (2011)

- Panorama Documents, Berlin International Film Festival, 2016