Travelling Docudays UA in Israel for the first time: Screening of Mountains and Heaven in Between by Dmytro Hreshko in Tel Aviv
Travelling Docudays UA in Israel for the first time: Screening of Mountains and Heaven in Between by Dmytro Hreshko in Tel Aviv
This year, screenings abroad were a part of the 19th Travelling Docudays UA for the first time. On November 14, the festival presented the film Mountains and Heaven in Between by Dmytro Hreshko to an audience in Israel. The screening took place in Tel Aviv and was initiated by the Filmed in Ukraine film club at the Cultural Centre of the Embassy of Ukraine in Israel.
A screening and discussion of Mountains and Heaven in Between in Israel. Photo credit: Darya Cheb
One of the films in this year’s festival programme was Mountains and Heaven in Between by Dmytro Hreshko. It was not the first time he had worked with the subject of ambulances. While his previous film, Save Me, Doctor!, was about a Kyiv ambulance on New Year’s Eve, the feature-length documentary Mountains and Heaven in Between explores the life of a rural ambulance station in Zakarpattia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A screening and discussion of Mountains and Heaven in Between in Israel. Photo credit: Darya Cheb
The filmmaker focuses on the stories of medical workers who come to their patients amid the coronavirus pandemic. As the pandemic rages around the world, the usual life of a mountain village of Kolochava continues. Despite this, medical workers have to take care of the health of their fellow villagers.
Before the screening, the audience of the Filmed in Ukraine film club in Tel Aviv had the opportunity to hear a video address from Gennady Kofman, one of the founders of the Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
A screening and discussion of Mountains and Heaven in Between in Israel. Photo credit: Darya Cheb
The discussion that followed the screening was both about the documentary story of a Zakarpattia ambulance and the current context of the full-scale invasion. This allowed the participants to reflect on the possible changes which the ambulance service in Ukraine could have been experiencing since the beginning of the full-scale war.
The screening was organised in partnership between the Filmed in Ukraine film club and the Travelling Docudays UA with support from the Embassy of Ukraine in Israel.
