Ksenia Okhapkina
Directing
- Born
- December 6, 1989 (age 36) · Leningrad, USSR (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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
Behind the camera11
- 2026Артефакты Creative Producer
- 2025Once Upon a Time in Leningrad Writer
- 2025Citizen of the Sun Director of Photography
- 2019Immortal Director of Photography, Screenplay, Director, Editor
- 2016Come Back Free Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay
- 2015Red Director
- 2013In the Beginning Was… The Cube Director
- 2012The Night Performance Director, Screenplay
- 2010Snowstorm Director, Screenplay
- 2010