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Mantas Kvedaravičius (1976-2022) was a filmmaker from Lithuania. His first documentary, Barzakh (2011), was selected by several film festivals and won many awards, among these are: The Amnesty International Prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Berlinale. His next two films, Mariupolis (2016) and Parthenon (2019), were selected by the Berlinale and the Critics Week in Venice. Kvedaravičius was captured and killed by Russian forces in April of 2022 when he was in Mariupol shooting his final film.