Dogwoof has acquired worldwide gross sales rights for “2000 Meters in Andriivka” by Ukrainian filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov, director of the 2024 Academy Award winner for finest documentary “20 Days in Mariupol.” “2000 Meters in Andriivka” is ready to have its world premiere Jan. 23 at Sundance Movie Competition as a part of the World Cinema Documentary Competitors.

Dogwoof will launch worldwide gross sales for the movie at Sundance. The documentary will probably be distributed by PBS Distribution in North America. It marks Dogwoof’s second collaboration with Chernov, PBS’s “Frontline” and the Related Press following “20 Days in Mariupol.”

“20 Days in Mariupol” supplied audiences a visceral view of the primary days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its civilian toll. Now, in “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” Chernov turns his lens towards Ukrainian troopers — who they’re, the place they got here from, and the unimaginable choices they face within the trenches as they combat for each inch of land.

Amid a failing counteroffensive in 2023, Chernov and his AP colleague Alex Babenko comply with a Ukrainian platoon traversing via one mile of a closely fortified forest on their mission to liberate the small, Russian-occupied village of Andriivka. However as “2000 Meters to Andriivka” reveals the farther the troopers advance via their destroyed homeland, the extra they understand that this conflict could by no means finish.

Weaving collectively Ukrainian Military bodycam footage and moments of reflection, Chernov captures the conflict in his personal nation from a private and devastating vantage level. “2000 Meters to Andriivka” paperwork a battle emblematic of the broader Russian-Ukraine Warfare — the biggest navy operation in Europe since World Warfare II — and presents a view of contemporary warfare harking back to battles fought almost a century in the past.

Dogwoof’s chief content material officer Oli Harbottle stated: “After the common popularity of ‘20 Days in Mariupol,’ Mstyslav has not solely cemented his place as one of the crucial fearless frontline journalists within the discipline however has constructed upon it to ship an extremely immersive and cinematic piece of filmmaking to depict the tragic hopelessness of conflict for these preventing on the bottom. We’re honored to be reuniting with PBS ‘Frontline’ and the Related Press to deliver this extraordinary movie to audiences around the globe.”

“We’re happy to as soon as once more be working with Dogwoof to deliver this necessary eyewitness journalism to audiences globally,” AP senior vice chairman and government editor Julie Tempo stated. “’2000 Meters to Andriivka’ gives an unflinching view of the continuing conflict in Ukraine, exhibiting the fact of what’s taking place on the bottom.”

The movie is produced by “Frontline’s” senior editor and producer Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath, the present’s editor-in-chief and government producer. It’s edited by Mizner. The movie is co-produced and contains extra cinematography by Babenko. The music consists by two-time Grammy Award-winning composer and music producer Sam Slater (“Chernobyl,” “Joker”).