In this tense and arresting follow-up to his award-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol, Ukrainian filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mstyslav Chernov shifts his attention from the 2022 Russian bombing of his hometown to the trench warfare of Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive. Embedded with a Ukrainian platoon, Chernov documents the harrowing battle to retake Andriivka from its Russian occupiers, only a mile away. An impossibly narrow strip of exposed forest, bordered by minefields, is the only route to the village, and the mission, as one soldier says, “is like landing on a planet where everything is trying to kill you.” Much of the searing combat footage is captured by helmet-mounted cameras or drones, and whether in bunkers or basements, technology has made the dangers of modern warfare anything but remote. Haunting, and somehow both unbelievable and undeniable, 2000 Meters to Andriivka is a profoundly moving document of risk and resilience.  TM