Ksenia Okhapkina
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- December 6, 1989
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
Immortal 2019
Director of Photography, Director, Screenplay, Editor
Come Back Free 2016
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Red 2015
Director
In the Beginning Was… The Cube 2013
Director
The Night Performance 2012
Director, Screenplay
Snowstorm 2010
Director, Screenplay
Liudians 2010
Director
The Smoke 2009
Director
Артефакты 2026
Creative Producer
Once Upon a Time in Leningrad 2025
Writer
Citizen of the Sun 2025
Director of Photography
Credits from TMDB.