Film Forum will present the US theatrical premiere of Oksana Karpovych’s INTERCEPTED, opening on Friday, October 4.

After the February 2022 invasion, the Security Service of Ukraine released intercepted phone calls from Russian soldiers to their families — sharing their innermost fears, contempt for Ukrainians, and hopes for a swift victory; while blithely detailing atrocities they perpetrate and goods they pillage. 

In INTERCEPTED, Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker Oksana Karpovych juxtaposes these intimate conversations with eerie images of deserted, war-torn Ukrainian homes and villages, shot just behind the front lines. Absent graphic imagery, Karpovych evokes a vivid, haunting tableaux of war, and the psychological disconnect between oppressors and the lives they’ve destroyed.

INTERCEPTED premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival and has played at numerous other world festivals, including New Directors/New Films, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki, and CPH:DOX.