Registration REQUIRED by November 11, 2025 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute, the Columbia Journalism School, the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University, and the Overseas Press Club for a screening and discussion of “2000 Miles to Andriivka,” presented in partnership with FRONTLINE PBS.
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. Weaving together original footage, intensive Ukrainian Army bodycam video and powerful moments of reflection, “2000 Meters to Andriivka” reveals with haunting intimacy, the farther the soldiers advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that, for them, this war may never end.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Mstyslav Chernov, Director, Writer, Producer, Raney Aronson-Rath, Executive Producer, and Michelle Mizner, Producer and Editor, moderated by Azmat Khan, Director, Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism.
