A personal journey to reveal the banality of evil behind Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A creative juxtaposition between the realities of Ukrainians resisting the violence of war, and the Russians perpetrating it.
Russian soldiers made thousands of unauthorized phone calls from the battlefield in Ukraine to their families and friends in Russia. Ukrainian intelligence services have been intercepting and posting their private conversations online every day since the start of the full-scale invasion. Fragment by fragment, the voices of the Russians open the eyes of the world not only to the course of the so-called "special operation" but also to the process of dehumanization and demoralization of its perpetrators: from being filled with heroic illusions to complete disappointment and loss of reason, from looting to committing the most horrible war crimes. Taking the voices of the invaders and their relatives as a basis, the film contrasts them with the life of Ukrainians, resisting the invasion on their soil, thrown into a day-to-day of war and resistance. Intercepted intertwines these two opposing worlds in a dizzying emotional tension. A unique cinematic experience and a historical document that raises many crucial questions about the nature of Russian imperialism, the role of propaganda in the invasion and the collective responsibility of Russians.
Participant at DokFest Munich with the RIDM — Coproduction Documentaire Québec-Bavière initiative (2020-2022), EuroDoc (2022), SODEC Lab Immersion Cannes (2022), Sheffield DocFest Meet Market — Focus Ukraine (2022), CPH:DOX Forum (2023), Hot Docs Forum (Winner of the CMF-Hot Docs Forum Canadian Pitch Prize) (2023)
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