Mantas Kvedaravičius (23 June 1976 – 30 March 2022; Biržai, Lithuanian SSR) was a Lithuanian filmmaker, documentary director, anthropologist and archaeologist known for war reporting in hostile areas. Mantas Kvedaravičius was killed on 30 March 2022 during the Siege of Mariupol (Russo-Ukrainian War). Kvedaravičius held a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and was an associate professor at Vilnius University. His doctoral thesis concerns "Knots of absence: death, dreams, and disappearances at the limits of law in the counter-terrorism zone of Chechnya" (Cambridge University, 2012). War-torn Chechnya, one of the republics of the Russian Federation, is also the setting of his 2011 documentary film, Barzakh ("Limbo"). His next documentary film, published in 2016, focuses on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, which in the years 2014–15 had come under the attacks o…
