Ukraine has chosen Mstyslav Chernov’s “2000 Meters to Andriivka” as its entry for the most effective worldwide characteristic movie class on the 98th Academy Awards.
The movie chronicles a Ukrainian platoon’s mission to liberate the occupied village of Andriivka from Russian troops. Shot with a mixture of helmet cameras, drones and on-the-ground footage, it offers an unflinching have a look at fashionable warfare and highlights the endurance of resistance beneath excessive circumstances.
Reviewing the movie for Selection, Man Lodge wrote: “’2000 Meters to Andriivka’ is a documentary each vigorous and exhausted, propulsive and petrified, with a prevailing tone of anxious fatigue encapsulated by one soldier’s plaintive, barbed query: ‘What if this warfare is till the tip of our lives?’ For too lots of his misplaced friends, it already has been.”
The Ukrainian Oscar Committee stated: “That is an uncompromisingly sincere and insightful documentary that dives into the truth of the Russian-Ukrainian warfare by way of human expertise – fragile, exhausting and on the identical time stuffed with dignity.”
Chernov, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, beforehand received the 2024 Academy Award for finest documentary characteristic with “20 Days in Mariupol.” His newest work premiered at Sundance 2025, the place he obtained the most effective directing award within the World Documentary program. The movie went on to gather the F:ACT Award for finest investigative documentary at CPH:DOX, together with a number of honors at DocuDaysUA.
“2000 Meters to Andriivka” is produced by Frontline PBS and the Related Press, with enhancing by Michelle Mizner. The mission continues Chernov’s collaboration with main documentary producers and distributors, reinforcing his place as one among Ukraine’s most internationally seen filmmakers. He’s represented by CAA and Cinetic Media.
Ukraine has been submitting movies for the worldwide characteristic class since 1997 however has but to safe a nomination. Previous entries embrace Valentyn Vasyanovych’s “Atlantis” (2019), Maryna Er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er’s “Klondike” (2022), and Antonio Lukich’s “Luxembourg, Luxembourg” (2023). “20 Days in Mariupol” made the shortlist within the class.
The Oscar worldwide characteristic shortlist will probably be introduced on Dec. 16 and the ultimate 5 nominees will probably be introduced on Jan. 22.
