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Intercepted
Oksana Karpovych
2024, Ukraine, 95 minutes, Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles
Wednesday 10 September 2025 at worm, rotterdam
Set against the backdrop of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Intercepted weaves together intercepted phone calls between Russian soldiers and their families with images of destroyed Ukrainian towns. The conversations, sometimes chilling in their banality, reveal a jarring disconnect between those who wage war and the reality they leave in their wake. As domestic chatter collides with landscapes of devastation, the film exposes the everyday absurdities and normalized violence behind imperial aggression. The film premiered at the Berlinale Forum 2024 and was the winner of the Grand Prix at RIDM Montreal in 2024.