The documentary-maker on new film 2000 Meters to Andriivka (the Guardian’s No 2 film of 2025), being on the Oscar circuit with 20 Days in Mariupol and filming on the frontline. AdrianHorton... What brought you back to the frontlines?. Mstyslav Chernov.
Mstyslav Chernov. What brought me back was not speaking to the audiences, even, but just coming out of Mariupol, we were so devastated and so scarred by what happened. And then we went off to Bucha, where we saw more war crimes ... MC ... MC ... Photograph ... MC ... MC ... .
• The best films of 2025 in the UK. • More on the best culture of 2025 ... Which makes the distance in 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Ukrainian director Mstyslav Chernov’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning 20 Days in Mariupol, all the more unbelievable ... ....
When Ukrainian journalist and filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov won the Academy Award for his documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” in 2024, he was already planning a follow-up movie about the war that continued to rage in his homeland.