Director Malik Benjellul died

On Tuesday, May 13, in Stockholm, the 36-year-old documentary director Malik Benjellul, winner of the Oscar Award, was found dead.

According toReuters with reference to the Swedish police, there were no signs of violent death.

Malik Benjellul was born in 1977 in Istad in the south of Sweden, in the family of a doctor, a native of Algeria, and a famous translator and artist Veronika Shildt.

At 13, he starred in a children's television series, the director of which was his uncle, Peter Schildt. I studied media and film director in Kalmar, worked on television in Stockholm.

The directorial debut of Malik Bengellu, the documentary “Searching for Sugar Man ), brought him the Oscar in 2013 in the nomination“ Best Documentary Film Film ”. In addition, the film received the prizes of the British Film Academy, the Guild of the directors of America, the Sundance festival and many other awards.

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