The documentary film 2000 Metres to Andriyivka by Ukrainian director Mstyslav Chernov was screened on 3 March at Ukraine House in Denmark. The institution announced the event on its Facebook page.
“This is a cinematic masterpiece — a chilling, multifaceted portrait of war, comparable to ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’. But this is not about the First World War — this is the present day. The senselessness of war and its disturbing poetics are presented here in all their fullness. Amid the bloodshed, the director brings us back to reality and creates an anti-war film that compels us to reflect on the price of every life lost,” the jury of CPH:DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival) 2025 said of the film.
The film offers an uncompromising view from the front line. At its centre is a group of Ukrainian defenders who advance two kilometres through a devastated landscape under constant shelling in order to liberate the ruined village of Andriyivka. Before the full-scale invasion, fewer than a hundred people lived there, yet the settlement holds strategic importance. During the Russian occupation, the soldiers receive an order to break through the enemy’s fortified positions and regain control of the village.
Chernov’s work is now regarded as one of the most significant anti-war documentaries of our time.
The film has already won the award for directing in the World Documentary programme at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.