Taiwan International Democratic Film Festival

20 Days in Mariupol | Chè-lâm Presbyterian Church in Taipei

Films screened

20 Days in Mariupol

Directed by Mstyslav Chernov・94 min・2023

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Associated Press journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his colleagues were trapped in Mariupol for twenty long days. Russian forces shelled civilians and infrastructure indiscriminately from a distance; the city lost water and power, and food supplies and communications collapsed. As the last international reporters in the city, Chernov kept the camera running and recorded the hardest images of the war to look at.

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