India, Feb. 2 -- Ukrainian director and journalist Mstyslav Chernov has returned to Sundance Film Festival with his follow-up to 20 Days in Mariupol, which won over Sundance in 2023 and ultimately went on to win the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. 2000 Meters to Andriivka, his new documentary has now won him the Directing Award. This new chapter is no less intense, no less difficult to watch. It throws the viewer into a first-person documentation of Ukrainian soldiers taking careful steps towards a village in order to free it from Russian occupation. (Also read: Andre is an Idiot review: A brilliant, life-affirming documentary of a man battling cancer)

In 2000 Meters to Andriivka, we are thrust directly into the litter, the dirt and ...