Divia

Local title
Divia, looduse jumalanna
Original title
Дівія
Director
Dmytro Hreshko
Year
2025
Festival
29th Black Nights Film Festival
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The film explores the catastrophic influence of the Russian invasion on nature in Ukraine.

“Divia” is a meditative, sound-driven journey through a wounded land – an elemental portrait of Ukraine before, during, and beyond the full-scale invasion. Without dialogue or narration, the film unfolds as a metaphysical symphony, where landscapes bear silent testimony to destruction and quiet resilience. Ashen forests, cratered fields, and the rusting skeletons of war machines haunt the frame – each image a trace of the violence etched into the soil. Yet, even here, nature does not pause. Seasons return. Grass pushes through scorched earth. Regeneration begins – slowly, insistently.

The film premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Director
Dmytro Hreshko
Screenwriter
Dmytro Hreshko
Producer
Polina Herman, Glib Lukianets
Co-producer
Richard Valk
Cinematographer
Dmytro Hreshko, Volodymyr Usyk
Music
Sam Slater
Sound
Vasyl Yavtushenko, Mykhailo Zakutskyi
Production
Gogol Film, UP UA Studio
Co production
Valk Productions
Editing
Alexander Legostaev, Anastasia Kirillova, Dmytro Hreshko
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Other festivals
Karlovy Vary
Director
Dmytro Hreshko

Filmography:
Snow Leopard of the Carpathians (2019, doc), Mizh nebom ta horamy (Mountains and Heaven in Between, 2022, doc), King Lear: How We Looked for Love During the War (2023, doc), Divia (2025, doc)

Screenings

Screening040921 / Divia, looduse jumalanna
SubtitlesEnglish
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Screening071221 / Divia, looduse jumalanna
SubtitlesEnglish
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1st Saku hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening121117 / Divia, looduse jumalanna
SubtitlesEnglish
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Trailer