Intercepted

Directed by Oksana Karpovych

  • genre Creative Documentary
  • duration 93 minutes
  • status diffusion

In Intercepted, sound and image stare each other in the face as Oksana Karpovych contrasts quiet compositions of everyday life of Ukrainians since the full-scale invasion with intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families.

Team

  • Director and Screenplay Oksana Karpovych
  • Production Les Films Cosmos (CA), Hutong Productions (FR), Moon Man (UA)
  • Co-production ARTE France
  • Support CNC, PROCIREP-ANGOA, Caisse populaire Desjardins Ukrainienne de Montréal, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (2021, 2022), La Fédération Nationale Ukrainienne du Canada (2021), Post-Moderne (2022), EuroDoc with the support of SODEC (2022)
  • Markets, Forums, and Labs DokFest Munich and RIDM – Quebec-Bavaria Documentary Coproduction, #ucanproduce (2021), Sheffield DocFest Meet Market 2022 – Focus Ukraine, HOT DOCS, and CPH:DOX 2023.

Partners

  • Partenaires financiers Telefilm, Sodec, Caisse populaire Desjardins Ukrainienne de Montréal, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, La Fédération Nationale Ukrainienne du Canada, Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée et Procirep-Angoa
  • Pitchs EuroDoc, DokFest Munich, RIDM (Coproduction Documentaire Québec-Bavière, #ucanproduce), Sheffield DocFest (Meet Market Focus Ukraine), HOT DOCS et CPH:DOX.

Screenings

  • Prix :
  • Berlinale Forum SPECIAL MENTION FOR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARD & SPECIAL MENTION BY ECUMENICAL JURY
  • Hong Kong IFF SPECIAL MENTION OF DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
  • BAFICI SIGNIS AWARD & BEST DIRECTION AWARD
  • Krakow Film Festival SILVER HORN FOR BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES
  • Galway Film Fleadh BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
  • Festival du film d'Osnabrück OSNABRÜCK PEACE FILM AWARD
  • War on Screen MENTION SPECIALE DU JURY INTERNATIONAL & PRIX DU JURY PRESSE
  • RIDM GRAND PRIX DE LA COMPETITION NATIONALE
  • Gotham Awards NOMINATED FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
  • European Film Forum SCANORAMA MAIN COMPETITION WINNER
  • WATCH DOCS AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE-LEGNTH DOCUMENTARY
  • Sélections Thessaloniki IDFF | CPH:DOX | Hot DOCS | Docville Festival | New Directors / New Films | Zagreb Dox | DocuDays UA | Crossing Europe | Festival La Rochelle Cinéma | Beldocs | UnderHill International Film Festival | International Film Festival Innsbruck | Ukraine on Film Festival | États Généraux du Documentaire de Lussas | DokuFest | DC/DOX | Melbourne IFF | Ceau Cinema Festival | Art Film Festival | Sarajevo Film Festival | Festival Film Documentaire Mimesis | Oradea Summer Film | Doxa IFF | Kino Xenix | Baltic Sea Docs | Scanorama | Ji.hlava Film Festival | International Human Rights Film Festival | Ukrainian Film Festival London | Helsinki IFF | Festival Do Rio IFF | Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival | Sofia Documental | Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal | Festival International du Film de Muret | Mediterranean Film Festival Široki Brijeg | Wiesbadener Kinofestival e.V. | Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival | Verzio Film Festival | Bogota International Film Festival | Centre Film Festival | Virginia IFF | Screening Rights FF | Astra Film Festival | CinEast Festival | Bogota International FIlm Festival | Eastern Neighbours | Ukranian Film Festival Berlin | Filmmaker Fest | ExGround Film festival | AFI FEST | Lima Alterna Film Festival | Filmkreis in Darmstadt | WARM Festival/ Warm Foundation | Watch Docs | IDFA | Moldox IFF for Social Change

Press reviews

  • Le Monde "At the Berlinale, the war in Ukraine told through the voices of Russian soldiers."
  • Ubiquarian “Intercepted is a heavy, hair raising watch that brings the terror of war to the viewership without a stain of blood. Executed with technical precision and with carefully selected images to accompany the excerpts of phonecalls, it creates the tension which does not ebb away until the film’s final scene.”
  • Journey Into Cinema “This is a powerful evocation of the horrors of war. The stark absences stir the darkest recesses of the human imagination.”
  • The Film Verdict "Ukrainian director Oksana Karpovych's quietly powerful documentary combines bleakly beautiful, defiantly hopeful images of her war-ravaged homeland with recordings of intercepted phone calls made by invading Russian soldiers."