Please join us and the United Nations Association of New York for 20 Days in Mariupol film screening and discussion.

The Honorable Sergiy Kyslytsya 
Ambassador
Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations

in conversation withEdith M. Lederer
AP correspondent for the UN

Screening begins promptly at 6:00 p.m. followed by the discussion with Q+A.

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20 DAYS IN MARIUPOLis an Academy Award and BAFTA Award winning film by Mstyslav Chernov, an AP journalist who captured the Russian invasion of Mariupol in 2022. The Frontline/PBS film shows the horrors of the siege, the courage of the reporters, and the impact of their work around the world. 

The award-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol follows Chernov as he and his Ukrainian AP colleagues become trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol, struggling to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. The last international journalists remaining in the city as Russian forces close in, Chernov, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and field producer Vasilisa Stepanenko capture what become some of the most defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more.

The film draws on Chernov’s daily news dispatches and personal footage of his own country at war. The result is a raw and haunting account of a journalist risking his life to share the truth of the conflict with the world.

Made in partnership with The Associated Press, 20 Days in Mariupol has had a decorated run on the 2023 film festival circuit — including at the Sundance Film Festival, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Sheffield Film Festival and the DocEdge Film Festival.

The Guardian called it "a brave, visceral, merciless masterpiece.” The New York Times said it is “Essential. A relentless and truly important documentary.”

(Note: the film contains scenes of dying children and the bombing of a maternity hospital. Viewer discretion is advised.)

More information about the screening HERE.