Oscar-nominated Mstyslav Chernov: This is not for me, this is for the Ukrainian people of Mariupol

A father crying over the body of his 16-year-old son, who was hit by a Russian missile in Mariupol while playing football with his friends. Frightened and wounded pregnant women being pulled out of a maternity ward, minutes after the building was hit in an airstrike. The first sighting of a Russian tank - the letter “Z” plastered on its side - turning its turret toward the top floor of a hospital as Moscow’s forces took over the southern Ukrainian city.

These are all harrowing scenes documented by journalists Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka and Vasilisa Stepanenko before they were forced into using the humanitarian corridor out of the besieged city as the Russians were closing it. Those left behind have been living under Russian rule ever since, for nearly two years.

, the Chernov-directed documentary covering the first few weeks of Russia’s