Senior state officials transmitted condolences to the family, relatives, friends, colleagues and all those who knew and praised film director Viorel Mardare. The obituary signed by Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu, Prime Minister Pavel Filip and Minister of Education, Culture and Research Monica Babuc says young film director Viorel Mardare, one of the most promising national filmmakers, who won the 2018 National Award for original film creation and for promoting Moldova’s image abroad, died on March 9, 2019 after struggling with a merciless disease, IPN reports.

Viorel Mardare was born in Chisinau on October 7, 1981. He graduated from the faculty of journalism and the faculty of dramatic arts. After 2000, he started to distinguish himself as a young journalist who took an active part in the social life and as a participant in municipal debates and mind games. Viorel Mardare is so far the holder of the most of titles of master of the Moldovan Mind Games Club.

“His video clips that in time urged the people to go and vote, to behave better towards their mates, to love their country and to promote it outside its borders characterized Viorel Mardare and they all were a sincere personal message for a better world. Viorel can be considered one of the leaders of the generation that formed in a free Moldova, who, by his works, contributed to the country’s democratization. But a cruel fate deprived us of the chance to further enjoy Viorel’s talent of filmmaker that would make us laugh, cry, oppose and feel accomplished,” runs the obituary.

Viorel Mardare died from cancer in the morning of March 9 at the age of 37.