Mountains and Heaven in Between

Між небом та горами
health
society
Ukraine
Ukraine
2021
70min
Ukrainian
Hungarian Premiere
Postcards from Ukraine
Director
Dmytro Hreshko
Producer: 
Polina Herman
Editor: 
Viktor Malyarenko
Dmytro Hreshko
Cinematographer: 
Dmytro Hreshko
Sound: 
Volodymyr Tret’yakov
Volodymyr Shchobak
Music: 
Hudaki Village Band
Production info: 
UP UA Studio, Ukraine State Film Agency, Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine
Distribution info: 
UP UA STUDIO Polina Herman polinaupua@gmail.com
Festivals and Awards: 
Docudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival 2022 DOCU/UKRAINE Nominee
Kharkiv MeetDocs Eastern Ukrainian Film Festival 2022 Jury Prize Nominee

During the global coronavirus pandemic, when the entire world comes to a halt, the inhabitants of a remote mountain village in western Ukraine continue living life to the fullest. Only a local team of paramedics knows what's really going on.

Director

Dmytro Hreshko was born in a small village in Transcarpathia, in western Ukraine. He has been studying and shooting documentaries since 2019. He completed summer courses in directing at "Skalka 2019", a film school in Uzhgorod, and graduated from the Kharkiv Academy of Visual Arts’ (AVA) documentary film course, under the curators Lyubov Durakova and Alisa Kovalenko. The following year he attended the Indie Lab 2020 School of Documentary Film in Kyiv, curated by Dmytro Tyazhlov and Ella Shtyka. He is active as an organizer for the Transcarpathian Film Commission concerning the development of cinematography in Transcarpathia, and as a co-founder and program coordinator of the Carpathian Mountain International Film Festival (CMIFF) in Uzhgorod.