A new film by the Oscar-winning director of 20 Days in Mariupol and Pulitzer Prize laureate Mstyslav Chernov.
Andriivka, a tiny village ten kilometres from Bakhmut, becomes the site of fierce battles during Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive. Only two kilometres of tree line separate The Third Separate Assault Brigade from liberating the village. But the area is strewn with mines, and the enemy has entrenched itself in some places. Soldiers who were once ordinary civilians traverse this path, struggling for every meter of ground to return Ukrainian lands to Ukraine.
Mstyslav Chernov is a Ukrainian filmmaker, videographer, photographer, photojournalist, war correspondent, and writer, known for his coverage of the Revolution of Dignity, the war in the east of Ukraine, the consequences of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flight, the Syrian Civil War, the Mosul battle in Iraq, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, including the blockade of Mariupol. Chernov is an Associated Press journalist and President of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers. He has won the Ukrainian National Taras Shevchenko Prize (2024) and an Oscar (2024).
He won several awards for his work on the blockade of Mariupol, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, together with Yevhen Maloletka and Vasylysa Stepanenko, the Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award, the Heorhiy Gongadze Prize, the Knight International Journalism Awards, the Overseas Press Club of America, Biagio Agnes Award, Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award, Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award, Free Media Awards, CJFE International Press Freedom Award, and Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards.
