Divia
Directed by Dmytro Hreshko
Documentary Feature
Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine | 78 min | 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.
Divia, the ancient Slavic goddess of nature and all living things, is opposed to war, destruction and death. Deminers, body searchers, ecologists, animal activists… are doing everything to measure the scale of the tragedy and restore lost natural resources. Nature tries to heal from its injuries by absorbing and transforming the remains of the war.
Divia will screen four times at the 2025 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It is also scheduled for the Odesa International Film Festival, which will be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, this year.