INTERCEPTED

INTERCEPTED

Country/ies
Ukraine
Production
Giacomo Nudi,Rocio Barba Fuentes,Darya Bassel,Pauline Tran Van Lieu
Editor
Length
95
Original Language
Original language
Status
Completed
Completed in
2024
Eurodoc Participant
Eurodoc Producer
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Year participation
2022
Distribution

What drives the people who come to your country to wage war? Intercepted is an attempt to find an answer by showing two parallel worlds. The camera registers images of destruction in unhurried shots, in which we see Ukrainian villages, towns, houses and motorways after their liberation from the Russian occupation. We look closely – not into the abyss of destruction and death, but rather at landscapes being filled again with life. This gives hope and serves to balance out the media’s normalization of horror. They are frames set against the flood of images. Throughout the film, the soundtrack forms a shocking counterpoint. We listen to the recordings of telephone conversations intercepted in 2022 by the Ukrainian Secret Service between Russian soldiers in trenches in Ukraine and their families. It’s hard to decide which element is more devastating: the soldiers’ confessions of the rape, looting and brutal torture of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war or the (mainly) female voices from “back home” that bear witness to chauvinism and hatred, disinformation and schizophrenic propaganda. Sound and image stare each other in the face, stunned, brought together in a cinematic space.

Festivals & Awards
2024 Berlinale (Germany) - Forum Section
2022 Sheffield DocFest (UK) - Meet Market (Focus Ukraine)
2022 Dok.fest München (Germany) – Dok.Forum (thanks to RIDM – Coproduction Documentaire Québec-Bavière)
Production & financial support

En coproduction avec ARTE France.

Avec le soutien de la SODEC, Téléfilm Canada Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec, du CNC, Visions du Sud-Est, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Fund, Procirep-Angoa.