Acclaimed Ukraine War Doc ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ Official Trailer
by Alex Billington
July 7, 2025
Source: YouTube
“What if the war lasts until the end of our lives?” Frontline PBS & AP have debuted the first official trailer for the acclaimed war documentary film titled 2000 Meters to Andriivka, the next new doc feature from Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov. It’s from the same director + the same filmmaking team behind the Oscar-winning doc 20 Days in Mariupol (trailer here), this time focusing on a different part of the war – the soldiers themselves. This premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and opens in art house theaters around the US starting later this month. A Ukrainian platoon’s mission: traverse a heavily fortified mile of forest to liberate a strategic village from Russian forces. A journalist accompanies them, witnessing the ravages of war and all the growing uncertainty about its conclusion. Weaving together original footage, intensive Ukrainian Army bodycam video & powerful moments of reflection, 2000 Meters to Andriivka reveals with haunting intimacy, the farther that they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize, for them, this war may never end… Makes me so sad they’re still fighting against these assholes.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Mstyslav Chernov’s doc 2000 Meters to Andriivka, via YouTube:
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, Mstyslav Chernov turns his lens towards 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. 2000 Meters to Andriivka is directed by the Ukrainian producer / filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, director of the doc 20 Days in Mariupol previously. Produced by Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath. Co-produced by Alex Babenko. This initially premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Frontline PBS & AP opens Chernov’s 2000 Meters to Andriivka in select US theaters starting July 25th, 2025 this month with more later. Intrigued?
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