Mriya International Film Festival brings you the Oskar & BAFTA nominated movie, which among many other prizes won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival - “20 days in Mariupol”. In a miraculous feat of documentary filmmaking, Ukrainian filmmaker and journalist Mstyslav Chernov creates an unforgiving time capsule of the invasion of Ukraine, filming the devastation of Mariupol over the three weeks he and his colleagues Evgeniy Maloletka and Vasilisa Stepanenko were stationed in the geographically crucial port city. In the style of various courageous Matthew Heineman films, Chernov risks his life to speak the truth about Russia’s shattering attacks on Ukrainian civilians when everything from residential buildings to maternity wards of hospitals were targeted and even mass graves couldn’t keep up with the death toll. It’s predictably a tough sit, but an unquestionably necessary one too—it’s one thing to have the information; entirely another to see lifeless bodies of all ages that fell victim to unspeakable evil. Watching Chernov’s film is a humanitarian duty.Mriya International Film Festival is a non-profit organization founded by a Ukrainian student of RITCS. Mriya has earned the rights to officially screen “20 days in Mariupol” and all revenue generated by the sale of tickets will be donated to a partnering humanitarian organization in Mariupol!