Films to Watch #12: 2000 Meters to Andriivka (Mstyslav Tsjernov, 2025)

Wednesday, January 21st – Amsterdam (LAB111)
🕣 Meet at 20:30 – Film starts at 21:15

Some films are not just meant to be watched.

They are meant to be experienced, confronted, and remembered.

For the 12th edition of Films to Watch, we will watch 2000 Meters to Andriivka, the new documentary by Mstyslav Chernov, Academy Award winner for 20 Days in Mariupol.

This is not a distant war story.

This is a hallucinatory, first-person descent into the reality of a conflict that has become technological, transparent and merciless — where drones, mines and satellite eyes have reshaped the very idea of the battlefield.

The film follows Ukrainian troops during a three-month crawling offensive through a narrow two-kilometre forest corridor, surrounded by minefields and hunted by drones. Through helmet cameras and aerial footage, the war unfolds like a first-person shooter — except here you only have one life.

It is raw, relentless, and disturbingly intimate.

We witness exhaustion, fear, brotherhood, loss, and a kind of courage born not of hope, but of necessity. A war where distance no longer exists — where death is always close, always watching.

### Practical info

• Meeting time: 20:30
• Meeting point: LAB111 bar (one of the best cinema bars in Amsterdam)
• Film starts: 21:15

We’ll meet beforehand for a drink and a conversation — to ease into a film that demands attention, reflection and silence afterwards.

This is not an easy watch.
But it is an urgent one.