Intercepted

Year
2024
Country
Canada, France, Ukraine
Duration
95’
Director
Oksana Karpovych

Ukrainian intelligence services have intercepted thousands of the phone calls which Russian soldiers made from the battlefield in Ukraine to their families and friends in Russia, painting a stark picture of the cruelty of war in a dizzying emotional tension. Juxtaposed with images of the destruction caused by the invasion and the day-to-day life of the Ukrainian people who resist and rebuild, the voices of the Russian soldiers — which range from being filled with heroic illusions to complete disappointment and loss of reason, from looting to committing more horrible war crimes, from propaganda to doubt and disillusionment — expose the whole scope of the dehumanising power of war, and the imperialist nature of the Russian aggression.

Content warning: depiction of war

CREW:
Director: Oksana Karpovych
Producer: Giacomo Nudi, Rocío B. Fuentes Co-Producers: Pauline Tran Van Lieu, Lucie Rego, Darya Bassel, Olha Beskhmelnytsina
Cinematographer: Christopher Nunn
Sound: Alex Lane, composer NFNR
Production
Les Films Cosmos Giacomo Nudi +1 514 409 4000 (CA) +49 176 401 59399 (DE) [email protected] www.filmscosmos.com
Sales:
Lightdox Bojana Marić +381 (0) 63 75 45 812 [email protected] lightdox.com
Awards
Special Mention for Amnesty International Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival (2024), Special Mention for Ecumenical Award at the Berlin International Film Festival (2024), Special Mention at Hong Kong International Film Festival
Director
Oksana Karpovych

Oksana Karpovych is a Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker, writer and photographer born in Kyiv. She lives and works between Kyiv and Montreal. Her first feature documentary Don't Worry, the Doors Will Open won the New Visions Award at RIDM in 2019 and received a special mention at Hot Docs 2020.

In her personal projects, Karpovych explores the everyday life and oral histories of ordinary people and how state politics intrude into the private sphere, influencing the communities she intimately documents. Karpovych is a Cultural Studies graduate of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine and a Film Production graduate of Concordia University in Montreal.

Selected Filmography
Don't Worry, the Doors Will Open (2019), Temporary (2017), Lost (2015)
Hall «GEGEMON»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Audio descriptionInclusive spaceAdapted subtitles
Friday
31 May 2024
20:00
Kino42
Kostiantynivska str., 11/13
Q&A
Original language with Ukrainian and English subtitles
By tickets
Audio descriptionInclusive spaceAdapted subtitles
Saturday
01 June 2024
19:30
Hall «GEGEMON»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A
Original language with Ukrainian and English subtitles
By tickets
Audio descriptionInclusive spaceAdapted subtitles
Sunday
02 June 2024
17:30
Hall «ANSHLAG»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A
Original language with Ukrainian and English subtitles
By tickets
Audio descriptionAdapted subtitles
Monday
03 June 2024
19:00
22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 6 — 13 
June 2025