"And then we went off to Bucha, where we saw more war crimes. And then I went to Kharkiv, my home town, which was bombed every day, just as Mariupol was. So even when we were starting to edit 20 Days in Mariupol, I was already looking for a story that would be, in a way, a response to that feeling I had, of devastation and helplessness."
"And I would go from those places in the United States, in the UK, in Europe, these beautiful, peaceful cities, back to Ukraine fly to the border, get a car, get a train, get another car, get in a trench. And in that trench, I would see a world that was so different. It would be like another planet, or 100 years backward in time."
Mstyslav Chernov returned to the Ukrainian frontlines after recording the devastation in Mariupol, witnessing further war crimes in Bucha, and seeing his bombed hometown Kharkiv. He sought a story that would respond to feelings of devastation and helplessness by showing Ukrainian agency, strength, and pushback during a counteroffensive. He balanced festival screenings and Q&As in peaceful Western cities with repeated returns to trenches, traveling from screenings to borders and frontline positions. He described the collision between worlds of peace and war as striking and aimed to capture distances and contrasts in his film 2000 Meters to Andriivka.
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