Crystal Globe Competition / Divia / Poland, Ukraine, Netherlands, USA 2025
War is primarily a human tragedy, but we should not forget that nature typically suffers with us. The documentary film Divia is a darkly immersive meditation which brings to light Russia's unprecedented aggression on Ukrainian soil and its grievous impact on places that issue their indictments in silence: forests turned to ash, fields ravaged by explosions, flooded towns, or rusted hulks of military hardware in devastated regions, where life has faded away. But nature doesn’t just give up and, like her, neither does man and his ambiguous existence. As one side brings destruction, the other – mine clearance personnel, people searching for bodies, ecologists – quantifies the aftermath of the tragedy and restores fragile Ukrainian ecosystems, even while the horizon rumbles on.
Vojtěch Kočárník
79 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Dmytro Hreshko
/ Screenplay Dmytro Hreshko
/ Dir. of Photography Dmytro Hreshko, Volodymyr Usyk
/ Music Sam Slater
/ Sound Vasyl Yavtushenko, Mykhailo Zakutskyi
/ Editor Alexander Legostaev, Anastasia Kirillova, Dmytro Hreshko
/ Producer Polina Herman, Glib Lukianets
/ Production Gogol Film, UP UA Studio
/ Coproduction Valk Productions
/ Contact Gogol Film, UP UA Studio
Dmytro Hreshko (Ukraine). Filmography: Snow Leopard of the Carpathians (2019, doc.), Mountains and Heaven in Between (Mizh nebom ta horamy, 2021, doc.), King Lear: How We Looked for Love During the War (2023, doc.), Divia (2025, doc.).
Gogol Film
Piotrkowska 189/191, 90-447, Łódź
Poland
E-mail: [email protected]
UP UA Studio
Starokyivska str, 26, Kyiv, 04116
Ukraine
E-mail: [email protected]
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