SCREENINGS & AWARDS

World Premiere: Berlin International Film Festival – Forum Section 2024

2024 Thessaloniki IDFF (Greek Premiere)
2024 CPH:DOX (Danish Premiere)
2024 Docville (Belgium Premiere)
2024 Hong Kong IFF (Asian Premiere)
2024 New Directors / New Films (North American Premiere)
2024 ZagrebDox

Upcoming: BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (April 17-28), Hot Docs (April 25 – May 5), Crossing Europe (April 30 – May 4), Beldocs (May 22-29), Krakow Film Festival (May 26 – June 2)

AWARDS

• Special Mention for Amnesty International Film Award at Berlin International Film Festival 2024
• Special Mention by Ecumenical Jury at Berlin International Film Festival 2024
• Special Mention in Documentary Competition at Hong Kong IFF 2024

PRESS

Reviews: Indiewire, Criterion – The Daily, Variety, New York Times, Filmmaker Magazine, Unseen Films, The New York Sun, Book and Film Globe, J.B. Spins, Eye for Film, Hammer to Nail, The Film Stage, Novaya Gazeta, FLM, Indie Eye, The Film Verdict, Ubiquarian, International Cinephile Society, Journey into Cinema, Cineuropa, Screen Daily – Acquisition Announcement
Interviews: Filmmaker Magazine, Voice of America, Voice of America TV, East Journal, Vita, il Manifesto, Business Doc Europe

***

““The movie’s stylistic tension, between images of life being lived (or having been lived), and disembodied voices portending death, connects the dots between ideology and action, between propaganda and bloodshed.” … “it points its microphone unflinchingly at the darkest parts of the human soul, while forcing the viewer to hold the camera and search for the brutality within its images and empty spaces. It makes the audience, and their recognition, a necessary ingredient to portraying the bigger picture.”

Siddhant Adlakha, Indiewire

***

“The terrific Ukrainian documentary is an austere and harrowing chronicle of life, death and indifference.”

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

***

“Considered in light of Karpovych’s previous dispatches on the war for Al Jazeera’s 24-hour coverage, it’s worth highlighting the cinematic distinction, and most importantly, the visual and pictorial intelligence, of what we see. It chimes with a trend in depictions of wars and atrocities to show them – if that at all – in a deferred, oblique manner: it’s the finger on the trigger, and then the dissipating smoke, with the explosion itself erased.“

David Katz, Cineuropa

***

“Interecepted is a heavy, hair raising watch that brings the terror of war to the viewership without a stain of blood. Executed with technical precision and with carefully selected images to accompany the excerpts of phonecalls, it creates the tension which does not ebb away until the film’s final scene.”

Marina D. Richter, Ubiquarian

***

“This is a powerful evocation of the horrors of war. The stark absences stir the darkest recesses of the human imagination.”

Redmond Bacon, Journey into Cinema