Mountains and Heaven in Between

The film „Mountains and Heaven in Between“ will be part of the main program of the „One World“ festival. It will be possible to watch it online from the comfort of your home. The stream will launch on November 5th at 12pm and will be available for the next 24 hours.

Mountains and Heaven in Between / Dmytro Hreshko / Ukraine 2021 / 70 min. – In 2020 the world was suddenly put on pause because of the pandemic. At this time the work of the medical workers comes to the fore, after the decades of being largely invisible. Doctors have to choose whom to save first and who’ll have to wait. Humans have difficulty understanding a threat if it can’t be felt or tasted, so the farther from the central cities, the more conventional quarantine is practiced by the locals. Weddings and mass celebrations increase the number of Coronavirus patients. Hospitals are overcrowded and doctors work tenuously. The film show show Transcarpathian doctors save lives through their individual heroism and dedication to the profession, despite their low salaries and severe risk to their own lives. The situation is complicated by the peculiarities of the Transcarpathian region, where a large number of the population are ethnic Hungarians who poorly speak Ukrainian and struggle to find a common language with the Ukrainian doctors.

Language: Ukrainian

Subtitles: Slovak, English

Topic: political regimes and conflicts