Mstyslav Chernov’s 2024 Academy Award-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol offered audiences a visceral view of the first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its civilian toll. Now, in 2000 Meters to Andriivka, 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 land.

With barely a hundred inhabitants, the village of Andriivka is a dot on the map. The film’s descriptions of its capture display the futility and abject sadness of war, as well as the political climate that we all live in.

Warning – this film contains uncensored sequences of warfare.

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