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2000 Meters to Andriivka
2025 Ukrainian documentary film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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2000 Meters to Andriivka (Ukrainian: «2000 метрів до Андріївки», romanized: 2000 metriv do Andriivky) is a 2025 documentary film produced and directed by Mstyslav Chernov. It follows Chernov, Alex Babenko and a Ukrainian platoon during a mission to liberate the Russian-occupied village of Andriivka, during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War.[2]
The film had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on 23 January, and was given a limited release in the United States on 25 July by PBS Distribution, prior to a broadcast on Frontline in December. It was theatrically released in Ukraine on 28 August.
It was selected as the Ukrainian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards.[3]
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Journalists Mstyslav Chernov and Alex Babenko follow a Ukrainian platoon on a mission to liberate Russian-occupied Andriivka in 2023, during the second year of the Russo-Ukrainian war.[4]
The film is largely composed of body-cam footage recorded by Ukrainian soldiers in combat, recording in real-time the battlefield confronts and aerial attacks, the bloodbath caused by it, and the Russian advance through the Donetsk Oblast.[5]
As a result of the war, the village was completely destroyed and its population fully displaced.
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Production
Frontline and The Associated Press co-produced the film, with PBS Distribution distributing the film.[6]
Chernov's previous documentary 20 Days in Mariupol won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 96th Academy Awards.[5] As a war correspondent for the Associated Press, Chernov reported from various conflict zones around the world before Russo-Ukrainian war. Editing was handled by American Frontline editor Michelle Mizner, with whom Chernov had previously worked on 20 Days in Mariupol.[7] The score was composed by two-time Grammy Award winner Sam Slater and produced by Austrian sound artist Jakob Vasak.[8] The music features a minimalist approach to sonic and musical composition, centered around the use of a war drum, Vasak’s self-developed electroacoustic instrument, the Kobophon, as well as original field recordings from the war zone and walkie-talkie communication.[9]
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2000 Meters to Andriivka had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2025 and won the Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary.[10][11] Dogwoof will handle international sales.[12] On March 30, 2025, at the CPH:DOX 2025, the film won the F:ACT AWARD category for best documentary in the investigative journalism genre. "Ultimately we give the F:ACT award to '2000 Meters to Andriivka' not just because it's a conflict on our doorstep, but because it's a masterpiece in filmmaking: a haunting, multi layered portrayal of war comparable to All Quiet on the Western Front", the festival jury concluded.[13] It was limitedly released in the United States on July 25, 2025, by PBS Distribution, prior to a broadcast on Frontline in December 2025.[14]
The Ukrainian premiere took place in June 2025 at the DocuDays UA documentary film festival in Kyiv.[15] The film received the main prize in the "Docu/World" nomination and two more awards: "Rights Now!" and "Audience Award".[16][17]
The film was also selected to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.[18] It was included in the "Horizons" program of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.[19] It won at the DocAviv International Documentary Film Festival.[20] It also won the audience award at Millennium Docs Against Gravity, at the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF.24), at the Mykolaychuk OPEN, and at th Sheffield Docs (United Kingdom). It also had a special screening at the 20th Rome Film Festival in October 2025.[21]
It won the Stockholm Documentary Competition of the 2025 Stockholm International Film Festival on November 5, 2025.[22][23]
The film was nominated in the category of "Best Documentary Feature" at the Gotham Awards 2025,[24] and in the category of "Best Feature Documentary" at the Ukrainian National Film Critics Award "Kinokolo".[25]
The film will compete in the Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film section of the 37th Palm Springs International Film Festival on 7 January 2026.[26]
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 42 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Captured with bracing frankness by director Mtsyslav Chernov, 2000 Meters to Andriivka is a poignant missive from the front lines."[27] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 88 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[28]
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