The day Mstyslav Chernov won the BAFTA for his documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” was the day he learned two soldiers he knew had been killed in combat. They were primary subjects of his new film “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” a harrowing portrait of modern warfare that puts audiences on the frontlines of the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“The film changed along the way,” Chernov, a videojournalist with The Associated Press, said last week after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. “From a story of the success of that operation it became a story of loss, of memory, of the price that soldiers pay for every single inch of the land. And that’s where the name came from.”
