Stockholm: Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul, who won an Oscar for his 2012 documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man', committed suicide in Stockholm, his brother said on Wednesday.

"I can confirm that it was suicide and that he had been depressed for a short period," the 36-year-old film-maker's brother Johar Bendjelloul told newspaper Aftonbladet. "Life is not always so easy." Bendjelloul was found dead in his apartment on Tuesday.