Cannes: Film Industry Shocked by 'Searching for Sugar Man' Director's Suicide — hollywoodreporter.com

Shock, disbelief and great sadness were the reactions of the Swedish — and international — film community following the news of the death by suicide of 36-year-old Malik Bendjelloul, the director of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man. Journalist Johar Bendjelloul said his younger brother had killed himself after struggling with depression for a short period of time.  The filmmaker rose to international fame in 2013 when his debut feature film, Searching for Sugar Man, won an Oscar for best documentary. The film tells the story of how singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, who had flopped in the United States, became a superstar in apartheid-era South Africa without knowing about it.

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