Ukraine has selected Mstyslav Chernov ’s “ 2000 Meters to Andriivka ” as its entry for the best international feature film category at the 98th Academy Awards .

The film chronicles a Ukrainian platoon’s mission to liberate the occupied village of Andriivka from Russian troops. Shot with a combination of helmet cameras, drones and on-the-ground footage, it provides an unflinching look at modern warfare and highlights the endurance of resistance under extreme conditions.

Reviewing the film for Variety , Guy Lodge wrote: “’2000 Meters to Andriivka’ is a documentary both vigorous and exhausted, propulsive and petrified, with a prevailing tone of anxious fatigue encapsulated by one soldier’s plaintive, barbed question: ‘What if this war is until the end of our lives?’ For too many of

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