Detachable Subdivision
"Rivne Professional College of
National University of Life
and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine"
Students of the 21-O group, together with curator Chernachuk O.O., visited the Rivne Cinema Palace Ukraine and watched the first Ukrainian film in the history of the award, which won the American Film Academy award - “20 Days in Mariupol”. The film tells about the first weeks of hostilities in Mariupol, Donetsk region, during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The film was produced by director and photographer Mstislav Chernov, photographer Yevhen Maloletka, and producer and journalist Vasilysa Stepanenko. They were the last journalists to cover the beginning of Russia’s destruction of Mariupol, for which all three received the Pulitzer Prize. They were also awarded the Shevchenko Prize in 2024.
The film became the highest-grossing documentary in Ukraine last year, collecting 500,000 hryvnias in its first weekend of release alone.
The film also won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary. Mstislav Chernov received the Directors Guild of America Award (DGA Awards) for "outstanding directorial achievement in documentary filmmaking."
On March 11, 2024, it became known that the film won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
None of the viewers remained indifferent and very deeply and painfully experienced the terrible events depicted in the film. We will never forget and forgive the enemy for the grief that the war brought to our country, in particular, to Mariupol.
Kateryna CHEBOTAROVA,
head of the 21-O group,
Oksana CHERNACHUK,
curator of the 21-O group
