Intercepted

Dir. Oksana Karpovych. 2024, 93 mins. Canada, France, Ukraine. DCP. In Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles.  Over the last two years of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Ukrainian intelligence services have intercepted thousands of personal phone calls Russian soldiers made from the battlefield to their families back home. Ukrainian-born filmmaker Oksana Karpovych juxtaposes a sampling of these audio recordings with footage of her country in the aftermath of destruction—shot with cinematographer Christopher Nunn in 2023—offering a tension between the voices of marauding invaders and the shattered communities left in their wake. One of the most nuanced and cinematically evocative films to emerge from the war on Ukraine, Intercepted exposes a range of frank testimonies, perspectives, and emotions from the Russian forces, from heroic delusions to bitter disillusionment, from rote jingoism to doubt and regret, from grim nihilism to gleeful criminality. What emerges is a tapestry of unmistakable humanity unmistakably dehumanized by their mission of violence and destruction.

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