‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’: Screening with Director Mstyslav Chernov

Join us for a special screening of the new documentary 2000 Meters to Andriivka, followed by a conversation with acclaimed Ukrainian filmmaker and war correspondent Mstyslav Chernov. 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, Chernov turns his lens toward 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 brigade battling 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 might never end.

This program is in-person only.

SPEAKERS

Mstyslav Chernov, Ukrainian Filmmaker, War Correspondent, Videographer, Photojournalist and Novelist; Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award Recipient

Moderator TBA

5:30 p.m. doors open & check-in
6–7:50 p.m film screening
7:50–8:30 p.m. discussion
(all times Pacific Time)

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