Oksana Karpovych's Intercepted brings together tapped phone calls from Russian soldiers within Ukraine's borders with footage from the devastation that they are responsible for; it depicts the Ukrainian people and their landscapes in an ongoing state of brokenness and resilience, resistance and repair. The Russian calls from the battlefield, recorded between March and November 2022 to their mothers, sisters, and partners, tell of the villages and towns they plunder, the prisoners they torture, and the dead bodies they encounter. The two channels, sonic and visual, combine to offer an intense depiction of war and the unsettling, mundane stillness that rests between moments of conflict.

Russian and Ukrainian spoken, English subtitles

(Oksana Karpovych, 92 min, 2024)