Oscar-winning documentarian and Related Press journalist Mstyslav Chernov has a brand new movie that delves additional into the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
“2000 Meters to Andriivka,” a joint manufacturing between the AP and PBS’ “Frontline,” may have its world premiere in January on the Sundance Movie Competition, organizers mentioned Wednesday.
Chernov gained the perfect documentary Oscar in March for “20 Days in Mariupol,” his harrowing depiction of the early days of the conflict. That movie debuted at Sundance in 2023 earlier than happening to gather most of the movie business’s most prestigious awards, together with from the Administrators Guild and BAFTA. The movie drew on AP reporting that additionally gained the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for public service and featured prominently that very same 12 months in a Pulitzer for breaking information pictures.
The brand new movie takes place through the failing counteroffensive and focuses on a Ukrainian platoon’s mission to attempt to liberate a strategic village from occupation. They should traverse “one mile of heavily fortified forest,” the outline reads. “But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that this war may never end.”
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Europe’s greatest armed battle since World Warfare II has price tens of hundreds of lives on each side.
Kim Yutani, the pageant’s director of programming, mentioned she expects viewers can be deeply moved by the movie.
“It’s an incredible documentary,” Yutani mentioned. “It really takes you into the trenches, literally into the trenches with Ukrainian troops, Ukrainian soldiers, citizens who became soldiers — a beautiful, horrifying portrait of the futility of war.”
The Sundance Movie Competition kicks off on Jan. 23 in Park Metropolis, Utah, and runs by way of Feb. 2.
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