ABOUT THE FILM
From the Oscar®-winning team behind 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA documents the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war from a personal and devastating vantage point.Following his historic account of the civilian toll in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov turns his lens towards Ukrainian soldiers —who they are, where they came from, and the impossible decisions they face in the trenches as they fight for every inch of their land.
Amid a failing counteroffensive in 2023, Chernov and his AP colleague Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian brigadebattling through approximately one mile of a heavily fortified forest on their mission to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka. Weaving together original footage, intensive Ukrainian Army bodycam video and powerful moments of reflection, 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA reveals with haunting intimacy, the farther the soldiers advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that, for them, this war may never end.
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PRESS
DIRECTING AWARD
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2025
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CPH:DOX 2025
THE CITY OF POZAŃ
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MILLENNIUM DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY 2025
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MILLENNIUM DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY 2025
AUDIENCE AWARD
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RIGHTS NOW AWARD
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DOCUDAYS 2025
“Extraordinary … the year’s most important film.”
Kevin Maher, June 11, 2025
“One of the best combat films ever made.”
Anthony Kauffman, February 04, 2025
“EXTRAORDINARY, both in its scope and its impact…From the tiniest moments of humanity, to the purring of a cat placed into a knapsack for retreat back behind the lines, we see the brutal reality of combat exposed, as well as the quotidian conversations that have taken place on battlefields throughout history that were never captured with this level of intimacy.”
Jason Gorber, January 28, 2025
“Mstyslav Chernov cements his position as a defining chronicler of the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine… An immediate yet contemplative look at modern warfare.”
Daniel Feinberg, January 23, 2025
“2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA is a documentary both vigorous and exhausted, propulsive and petrified, with a prevailing tone of anxious fatigue encapsulated by one soldier’s plaintive, barbed question: ‘What if this war is until the end of our lives?”
Guy Lodge, January 23, 2025
“Powerfully considers the immeasurable costs of war.”
Stephen Saito, January 24, 2025
“A fearless piece of filmmaking in the face of danger.”
Amber Wilkinson, January 24, 2025
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