Oksana Karpovych is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and photographer born in Kyiv, now based in Montreal and working between Quebec and Ukraine. She holds a degree in Cultural Studies from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the National University in Ukraine, and in Film Production from Concordia University in Montreal. In her personal projects, she explores everyday life and the oral histories of ordinary people, examining how state politics invade the personal sphere and shape the communities she documents with intimacy. Her debut feature documentary Don't Worry, The Doors Will Open (2019) won the New Visions Award at RIDM 2019 and received an Honourable Mention for Emerging Canadian Filmmakers at Hot Docs 2020. She has also been part of the programming team at the Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (Kyiv). Intercepted is her second feature documentary.
Don't Worry, The Doors Will Open
New product!Shot 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 a...
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
New product!Shot 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 a...
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...