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Feature: The award-winning director of ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ shows us Ukrainian soldiers up close in ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’
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Feature: The award-winning director of ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ shows us Ukrainian soldiers up close in ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’

Austin Cross sat down with Mstyslav Chernov to talk about his documentary ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ and the importance of capturing the war on camera.

A soldier walking through a decimated forest
Still from 2000 Meters to Andriivka
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Feature: The award-winning director of ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ shows us Ukrainian soldiers up close in ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’

The war in Ukraine started in February 2022 when Russia launched a full-scale invasion. We watched as civilians sheltered from airstrikes and buildings became ruins in the Oscar award-winning documentary ‘20 Days in Mariupol’, just as the Russians took siege of one of Ukraine’s largest metropolitan areas. Now, three years after the Russian invasion and two years after that film's release, writer, director and producer, Mstyslav Chernov’s follow up documentary, ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ takes us back to the frontline as we follow Ukrainian soldiers on a mission to liberate the small town of Andriivka. Austin Cross sat down with Chernov to talk about the documentary and the importance of capturing the war on camera.

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