The premiere of the documentary was held in the capital’s Cinema House. The screening was followed by a discussion with members of the creative team: director Mstislav Chernov, photographer Yevgeny Maloletka and producer Vasilisa Stepanenko.
The first to watch the Pulitzer Prize-winning film were Anna Gulyaeva, Vlad Nikityuk, Katya Taylor, Sergei Maidukov, Igor Kozlovsky, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo and others.
The premiere of the film “20 Days in Mariupol” took place in the center of the “Cinema Society” in the capital’s Cinema House. This painting depicts the siege of the city from the very beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. On August 31, the tape will be released in limited numbers – you can only watch it for a short time in select theaters (first weekend only in most theaters).
Actors Anna Gulyaeva and Vlad Nikityuk, curator Katya Taylor, illustrator Sergei Maidukov, writer Igor Kozlovsky, Ukrainian Regional Defense Force spokesperson Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, cultural attaché of the Lithuanian Embassy in Ukraine Tomasz Ivana, restaurant operator Sasha Zhilyaev were guests. premiere screening.
The screening was followed by a discussion with members of the creative team: director Mstislav Chernov, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, and producer Vasilisa Stepanenko, members of the Associated Press team, the last international journalists in besieged Mariupol. They continued to work in the conditions of the siege of the city and recorded footage that later became the defining footage of the war: the death of children, mass graves, a bombed maternity hospital and other horrors of the aggressor’s crimes.
They received the Pulitzer Prize, considered journalism’s most prestigious award, for their work in besieged Mariupol. Mstislav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka have received international awards, notably the Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award (Germany), the Knight International Journalism Awards (USA), the Biagio Agnes Award (Italy), the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award (France) and the Georgy. Gongadze and Ukraine Pravda Prize.
The film was first screened in the World Cinema Documentary Competition section of Sundance, one of the largest independent film festivals in the United States. The movie won the Audience Choice Award.
Film critics and audiences alike welcomed the tape: on the Rotten Tomatoes website, the film received a 100% rating and received the “Certified Freshness” award, which is given to the best-reviewed films. Rating on IMDb platform – 8.5, on Metacritic – 83 points with Must See Mark.
The Los Angeles Times called the film “remarkable”, The Hollywood Reporter compared it to a “breathtaking” one, and Harper’s Bazaar wrote that “it is everyone’s human duty to watch Chernov’s film.” The Ukrainian edition of NV called the film “light against darkness in the information war”, and Lirum noted it was “definitely a journalistic achievement”.
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