Film ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ to represent Ukraine at Oscars

This is stated on the institution's website.

The film will be nominated in the Best International Feature Film category. It was selected by a vote of the members of the Ukrainian Oscar Committee, chaired by Valentyn Vasianovych.

In total, five films participated in the national selection: ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ by Mstyslav Chernov, ‘Iron Butterflies’ by Roman Liubyi, ‘Pamphir’ by Dmytro Sukholytkyi-Sobchuk, ‘Spoil Heaps’ by Taras Tomenko, and ‘SHTTL’ by Adrien Walter.

‘20 Days in Mariupol’ is a film by Ukrainian journalist and photographer Mstyslav Chernov. Together with Chernov, photographer Yevhen Malolietka and producer Vasylisa Stepanenko worked on the film. It shows the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the bombing of the maternity hospital and the rescue of the author and his colleagues from the Associated Press from the city surrounded by Russian troops.

• Ukrainian documentary filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov's film ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ was screened at the 78th UN General Assembly, with over 100 officials attending.