Chernov's new film 2000 Meters to Andriivka will be featured at Sundance festival

"2000 Meters to Andriivka", the new film by Ukrainian documentarist Mstyslav Chernov, will be presented at the Sundance Film Festival, as announced on the festival's website.

The film’s description says that in it, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon amid the failing counteroffensive. Their mission is to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that this war may never end.

A shot from "2000 Meters to Avdiivka"

"Surrounded by mines and only accessible through a tiny sliver of wooded land that is fought over meter by meter, the village of Andriivka, Ukraine, lies in ruins. Following 20 Days in Mariupol (2023 Sundance Film Festival), Ukrainian director and journalist Mstyslav Chernov returns with a stunning portrayal of life in the trenches, and in the battle for this one small place, the desperate struggle against Russia to free the Ukrainian nation. In this picture of total war — from the command centers leading the soldiers to the funerals for those who lost their lives and the brutal combat by people who only a few years ago were civilians — Chernov has created a remarkable film about the terrible beauty in liberating one’s home while also unflinchingly looking at the futility and horror of war itself," says Indian screenwriter Sudeep Sharma.

The movie is available in person, as well as online for the public (January 30–February 2) and credentialed press and industry (January 29–February 2).