Divia (Дівія)

Dmytro Hreshko

Divia is a meditative, sound-driven journey through a wounded land – an elemental portrait of Ukraine before, during, and beyond the full-scale Russian 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. Yet even here, nature does not halt. Seasons return. Grass pushes through scorched earth. Through this reverent silence move deminers, body searchers, environmentalists, and animal rescuers. Their presence, almost spectral, speaks of both grief and grace. Divia invites viewers into a space where beauty and devastation coexist, and where the act of witnessing becomes a form of renewal.

Poland, Ukraine, the Netherlands, USA 2025, '79

DIRECTOR: Dmytro Hreshko

CAMERA: Dmytro Hreshko, Volodymyr Usik

MONTAGE: Alexander Legostaev, Anastasia Kirilova

MUSIC: Sam Slater

PRODUCERS: Polina Herman, Glib Lukianets, co-producer Richard Valk

PRODUCTION: Gogol Film, Up Ua Studio, co-production Valk Production

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

Watch Docs (2025): Green Dog Award
Karlovy Vary IFF
Tallinn Black Nights FF
Sarajevo FF
Rio de Janeiro IFF
Vilnius IFF
Cottbus FF
Odesa IFF

Dmytro Hreshko

Dmytro Hreshko is a Ukrainian director and cinematographer from Transcarpathia. His short film Save Me, Doctor! (2020) was awarded Best Ukrainian Film at the 14th Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art and received a Special Jury Prize at the Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival. His debut feature documentary, Mountains and Heaven in Between (2021), premiered at the 19th Docudays UA and went on to screen internationally at Sheffield DocFest, FIPADOC, DOK Leipzig, and Krakow Film Festival. A regular participant in international workshops and co-production markets—including Sunny Side of the Doc, DOK Leipzig Co-Pro Market, East Doc Platform, Baltic Sea Docs, CEDOC Market, and Eurodoc, Hreshko is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers and the Ukrainian Film Academy. Since the end of 2024, he has been serving in the Cultural Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.