Ksenia Okhapkina

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1989-12-06 (35 years old)

Place of Birth Leningrad, USSR (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Also Known As Ксения Охапкина, Ксения Олеговна Охапкина

Ksenia Okhapkina

Biography

Ksenia Olegovna Okhapkina (Ксения Олеговна Охапкина; born 6 December, 1989; Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian documentary filmmaker. She graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Film and TV in 2012. Since 2014, she has collaborated with the Estonian producer Riho Västrik and his film studio Vesilind. Her first documentary produced in Vesilind, “Come Back Free”, won IDFA Special Jury Award for Mid-Length Documentary in 2016. “Come Back Free” is a poetic documentary about life in a war-torn Chechen village with local cemetery as its symbolic focal point. With her previous work, Ksenia has shown her ability to capture “the poetic in the pro- fane”. She avows to the meaningfulness of a single frame and has strong commitment to composition.

Known For

Director

2019
Immortal

as Director

2016
Come Back Free

as Director

2015
Red

as Director

2012
2010
Snowstorm

as Director

2010
Liudians

as Director

2009
The Smoke

as Director

Writer

2019
Immortal

as Screenplay

2016
Come Back Free

as Screenplay

2012
The Night Performance

as Screenplay

2010
Snowstorm

as Screenplay

Camera

2019
Immortal

as Director of Photography

2016
Come Back Free

as Director of Photography

Editor

2019
Immortal

as Editor