Intercepted
Awards
International Cinephile Society Awards (2025) – Nominated: Best Documentary
Krakow Film Festival (2024) – Winner: Silver Horn: International Documentary Competition
Galway Film Fleadh (2024) – Winner: Best International Documentary
Gotham Awards (2024) – Nominated: Gotham Independent Film Award: Best Documentary Feature
Cinema for Peace Awards (2025) – Nominated: Cinema for Peace Dove Award: Most Valuable Documentary of the Year
Cinema Eye Honors Awards (2025) – Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Editing
Cinema Eye Honors Awards (2025) – Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design
Canadian Screen Awards (2025) – Nominated: Best Cinematography in a Feature Length Documentary
Canadian Screen Awards (2025) – Nominated: Best Sound Design in a Feature Length Documentary
Docudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: RIGHTS NOW! Best Film
Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: Human Rights Dox
Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) (2024) – Nominated: Special Mention: Amnesty International Film Award,
Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) (2024) – Winner: Grand Prize: Best National Feature
Docville (2024) – Nominated: Jury Award: Best International Documentary
Ukrainian Film Critics Awards (2024) – Nominated: Best Documentary Feature Film
Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) (2024) – Winner: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention
Hong Kong International Film Festival (2024) – Winner: Special Jury Mention
Hong Kong International Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: Golden Firebird Award: Documentary
Buenos Aires Int’l Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) (2024) – Nominated: Best Achievement
Buenos Aires Int’l Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) (2024) – Winner: SIGNIS Award
Krakow Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: Golden Horn: International Documentary Film Competition
Krakow Film Festival (2024) – Winner: FIPRESCI Prize: International Documentary Film Competition
During the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Russian soldiers have made thousands of phone calls from the battlefield to their families at home. The Ukrainian special services have been listening in on those calls since the start of the invasion, regularly posting excerpts from them online. Intercepted merges recordings of these phone calls with static shots from war-torn Ukraine, dropping the viewer directly into the aftermath of the violence of war. Some shots are of empty apartments, some of Ukrainians going about their daily lives, and some are from a tank moving through the broken landscape. The remarkable result is a multilayered film that functions as a devastating portrait of contemporary Russia and the dehumanising power of war and military propaganda. The voices we hear are diverse in their concerns and attitudes but few have any sympathy for the supposed enemy they are fighting. Spliced together with brilliant editing and sound design, Intercepted resonates with the full power of cinema and will continue to occupy your consciousness long after the credits roll.
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Trailer
Previous Festivals
Art FF (2024)
Buenos Aires Int’l Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) (2024)
Beldocs (2024)
Berlin International Film Festival [Berlinale] (2024)
Ceau Cinema (2024)
CPH:Dox (2024)
Crossing Europe (2024)
DC/DOX FF (2024)
Docudays FF (2024)
Docville FF (2024)
Dokufest (2024)
DOXA Int’l FF (2024)
Fema – La Rochelle (2024)
Galway Film Fleadh (2024)
Hong Kong Int’l FF (2024)
Hot Docs (2024)
Innsbruck Int’l FF (2024)
Krakow FF (2024)
LUSSAS Etats généraux du documentaire (2024)
Melbourne Int’l FF (2024)
Mimesis DFF (2024)
New Directors/New Films (2024)
Oradea Summer Film (2024)
Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal – RIDM (2024)
Sarajevo FF (2024)
Thessaloniki Doc FF (2024)
Ukrainian FF in Brussels (2024)
UnderHill Int’l FF (2024)
Zagreb Dox (2024)
Press Comments
This daring collision of image and sound is haunting in its own way, presenting intimate conversations which often reveal trace glimpses of humanity in soldiers who otherwise have behaved monstrously.
Intercepted offers a spare psychological portrait of soldiers at war. Gleaned directly from their conversations, this is an honest depiction of how empathy disappears and malice takes over.
Terrific… An austere and harrowing chronicle of life, death and indifference… One of the strongest movies in [New Directors/New Films].
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