DIVIA / ДІВІЯ

Leonid Nefedovich
Sep 18
2 min read

Updated: Sep 21

2025 / 79' / documentary / Poland, Ukraine, Netherlands, USA

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 halt. Seasons return. Grass pushes through scorched earth. Regeneration begins – slowly, insistently. 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.

Screenings schedule:

September 28, 2025 at 08:00 p.m. at the Zhovten Cinema, Kinoman Hall

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DIRECTOR - DMYTRO HRESHKO

Biography

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. Is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers and the Ukrainian Film Academy. At the end of 2024, joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and is currently serving in the Cultural Forces unit.

Selected filmography