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‘Everything is trying to kill you’: harrowing Ukraine film gets standing ovation at Sundance
Oscar-winning film-maker behind 20 Days in Mariupol returns to festival with bruising, on-the-ground look at ongoing conflict
A harrowing new documentary from Mstyslav Chernov on Ukraine’s ailing counteroffensive against the Russian invasion brought tears and a standing ovation to the Sundance film festival, two years after the film-maker premiered 20 Days in Mariupol, his Oscar-winning account of the siege’s first weeks. But whereas 20 Days in Mariupol focused primarily on civilians killed, maimed or mourning during the initial Russian invasion in 2022, Andriivka embeds with Ukrainian soldiers during the military’s counteroffensive in the east throughout 2023, at a time when there was no other independent reporting from the war’s frontlines. Chernov began working on the project as he was screening the acclaimed 20 Days in Mariupol around the world, returning to Ukraine amid travel to meet with the brigade as the counteroffensive settled into a slow, bitter, lethal stalemate.
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