Oksana Karpovych
Oksana Karpovych is a screenwriter, director, and photographer born in Kyiv (Ukraine), living in Montreal, and working between Quebec and Ukraine. In her personal projects, Karpovych explores the everyday lives of ordinary people and how state politics invades the personal sphere, as well as the influence it has on the communities she documents. Karpovych is a Cultural Studies graduate from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the National University in Ukraine, and a Film Production graduate from Concordia University in Montreal. Her first feature documentary film Don’t Worry, The Doors Will Open (2019) won the New Vision Award at RIDM (Montreal, 2019) and received an honorable mention in the Emerging Canadian Filmmaker category at Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival (Toronto, 2020). Currently Oksana is working on her second feature documentary Storms Are Whispering.
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Don't Worry, The Doors Will Open
Don't Worry, The Doors Will Open
Subscription accessShot over summer and winter seasons on elektrychkas, typical Soviet commuter trains that travel between the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and small provincial towns, _Don’t Worry, The Doors Will Open_ invites us to share a ride with working class, mostly marginalized passengers and vendors. Following a number of people from one grimy wagon to another, from station to station, from day to night, we are...
Don't Worry, The Doors Will Open
Don't Worry, The Doors Will Open
Subscription accessShot over summer and winter seasons on elektrychkas, typical Soviet commuter trains that travel between the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and small provincial towns, _Don’t Worry, The Doors Will Open_ invites us to share a ride with working class, mostly marginalized passengers and vendors. Following a number of people from one grimy wagon to another, from station to station, from day to night, we are...
