Free online screenings of the film Divia on Earth Day

On Earth Day (April 22), audiences across the region will have the opportunity to watch the ecological documentary Divia, directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Dmytro Hreshko, free of charge. The film will be available online from April 22 to April 29 at: https://ondemand.kinomeetingpoint.ba/

The screening is part of the Ecoscope program, an initiative involving films acquired within the Adriatic Region Festival Network: the Sarajevo Film Festival, Herceg Novi Film Festival, Ljubljana International Film Festival, Auteur Film Festival, Zagreb Film Festival, and Manaki Brothers.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Festival Network is offering audiences across the region free screenings of ecological documentary films on Earth Day.

Divia follows the transformation of Ukraine—from peaceful natural beauty to destruction caused by war. With the onset of summer, life gradually begins to return, yet conditions indicate that a rapid ecological recovery is not possible.

The film was also screened in the Competition Programme – Documentary Film at last year’s 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, where it competed for the Heart of Sarajevo awards.

Divia is a poetic documentary that explores the dual devastation of war—human and ecological. Through images of burned forests, destroyed fields, and flooded towns, the film portrays landscapes altered by violence, while also revealing the quiet resistance of nature and people. Through the perspectives of a deminer, an ecologist, and restoration teams, it uncovers the slow, painful, yet determined process of recovery of fragile ecosystems.

Destroyed forests, flooded villages, rescuers, demining efforts, animal rescue volunteers, and nature itself become the main “characters” of the film, which relies entirely on image and sound—without narration or dialogue. The film’s title refers to a Slavic goddess of wild nature, forests, hunting, and the moon, symbolizing nature as well as resistance to war and death.