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With the beginning of military aggression in 2014, followed by the full-scale invasion by Russia in 2022, the state of ecology in Ukraine has deteriorated catastrophically. Divia is an observational documentary about the catastrophic impact on Ukraine's environment as a result of the Russian invasion and how nature is resisting and recovering from this aggression. The name of the film, Divia, comes from the ancient Slavic goddess of nature and all living things, who is opposed to war, destruction and death. Divia is a meditative, sound-driven journey through a wounded landâan 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 frameâeach 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 beginsâslowly, 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. âA haunting portrait of warâs silent victim â nature â as Ukraineâs landscapes bear the scars of invasion and quiet acts of restoration begin.â VojtÄch KoÄárnÃk, Programmer at KVIFF
With the beginning of military aggression in 2014, followed by the full-scale invasion by Russia in 2022, the state of ecology in Ukraine has deteriorated catastrophically. Divia is an observational documentary about the catastrophic impact on Ukraine's environment as a result of the Russian invasion and how nature is resisting and recovering from this aggression. The name of the film, Divia, comes from the ancient Slavic goddess of nature and all living things, who is opposed to war, destruction and death. Divia is a meditative, sound-driven journey through a wounded landâan 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 frameâeach 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 beginsâslowly, 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. âA haunting portrait of warâs silent victim â nature â as Ukraineâs landscapes bear the scars of invasion and quiet acts of restoration begin.â VojtÄch KoÄárnÃk, Programmer at KVIFF

