Mantas Kvedaravicius

Mantas Kvedaravicius was born in Birzai in Lithuania in 1976. He studied cultural anthropology at Oxford University and is currently working on his Cambridge University dissertation on the topic of the effects of pain. He has held seminars in New York on religion, law and political theory, and in 2006 was leader of a research project on torture and deportation in the Northern Caucasus. He is also a marine archaeologist. BARZAKH is his first film, broadcasted at the 2011 Berlinale, in the Panorama section. (Source : Berlin Film Festival)