KOLO KINO CINEMA CLUB - INTERCEPTED: 01.07

Join KOLO Kino Cinema Club for a screening of INTERCEPTED, a documentary directed by Oksana Karpovych.

Described by The New York Times as “an austere and harrowing chronicle of life, death and indifference,” the film offers a powerful and reflective cinematic experience focused on the realities of war and its human impact.

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.

Language: Russian with English-French subtitles.

Entry by donation.

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KOLO — (« cercle » en ukrainien) — est un nouvel espace culturel communautaire à Paris qui relie artistes, chercheurs et créateurs ukrainiens et internationaux à travers la collaboration, le dialogue et l’expérimentation. Fondé par l’architecte Martin Duplantier et curaté par une équipe d’artistes, de commissaires et de chercheurs. KOLO est un espace centré sur le processus : un lieu de recherche, de développement, d’échange et d’expérimentation de nouveaux formats et idées.