In-Person Screening: Sunday, November 6, 4:00 pm

MARIUPOLIS 2 (Mariupolis 2)
Mantas Kvedaravičius, Ukraine/Lithuania/Germany/France, 2022
112 minutes, In Russian with English subtitles

Mariupolis 2 is the fourth and final film by the late Mantas Kvedaravičius, who returned to the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol earlier this year following his 2016 film documenting life under attack. Embedded with people sheltering in the basement of a church, Kvedaravičius filmed uncensored everyday life accompanied by constant shelling and the unrelenting noise of war outside. We see people sweeping the yard, smoking, praying, and crying all the while, with the Azovstal iron and steel works — where brutal fighting continued until the bitter end of the city’s collapse — looming in the distance.

Mariupolis 2 is about human resilience under unimaginable adversity. After the director's untimely, brutal death during the making of the film, his fiancé Hanna Bilobrova managed to escape with the footage and his producers and collaborators have worked tirelessly to continue spreading his work, his vision, and his films. Mariupolis 2 had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.

Following the screening, special guest Hanna Bilobrova, who was with Kvedaravičius during filming, will be joined in conversation with Maksimas Milta (Yale-based political scientist and commentator). They will discuss her experience, which involved smuggling the footage out to complete the director's legacy.

The director's first film about the city, Mariupolis, is available to screen online for the duration of the festival.

“Mariupolis 2” is a document of the war in Ukraine that’s as raw and real as they come.” Owen Glieberman, VARIETY

Festival History
Cannes Film Festival, 2022
Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 2022
Toronto International Film Festival 2022

Tags: Lithuania, Ukraine, Documentary, War