The new documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” at Sundance is an unflinching look at the human toll of the war in Ukraine: “Film so the whole world will see this chaos.”
was written, directed and shot by Mstyslav Chernov, an AP video journalist and the only reporter to remain in Mariupol once Russia arrived.
Following a brief prologue involving Chernov and a Ukrainian soldier named Vladimir spotting Russian tanks on the street, their sides emblazoned with the letter Z,begins in earnest on Feb. 24, 2022, with Chernov intoning, “Wars don’t start with explosions. They start with silence.” “Fuck you, prostitute,” a man spits at Chernov for trying to film him and his wife as they abandon the city. Chernov concedes that he understands their anger but “it’s our country too, and we have to tell its story.”is reportage designed not to exploit but to expose, and it focuses on Chernov’s efforts to both document what’s taking place in Mariupol and to come up with a means of getting his footage out of Ukraine and to the world, where it might spark outrage and change.
Everywhere Chernov turns, he finds tragedy: a mother crying out “why?” upon hearing that her 18-month-old son has passed away; an injured teen being tended to in the dark on a filthy floor, his leg seemingly destined for amputation; and a pregnant woman with a bloody belly being carried through a yard on a stretcher.
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