Ksenia Okhapkina
Born 1989 (age 36) · Leningrad, USSR (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Appears in 11 titles

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.

Filmography

Immortal
6.2
Immortal
2019
Director
Red
2015
Director
The Smoke
2009
Director
Liudians
2010
Director
Snowstorm
Snowstorm
2010
Director
The Night Performance
2012
Director
Come Back Free
Come Back Free
2016
Director