A documentary featuring testimonies from people who remember the 1933 famine in Ukraine.

The Holodomor was a mass-scale, man-made famine organised in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932–1933 by the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the government of the USSR. Ukraine was the hardest hit, with millions of people dying of starvation. This famine has been recognised as genocide against the Ukrainian people. According to demographic estimates, the total number of victims of the Holodomor in the Ukrainian SSR is 3–7 million people. According to estimates by the M. Ptukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine’s demographic losses as a result of the Holodomor in 1932–1933 amount to approximately 4.5 million people, including 3.9 million due to excess mortality and a further 600,000 due to a birth deficit.

The first film in Bno-Ayriyan’s seven-part series. These are the stories of real people who have been affected by COVID-19.

This film is dedicated to the doctors who have lost their lives to COVID-19, and to all Ukrainians whose lives have been taken by the coronavirus. It tells the true stories of those living with COVID-19, those undergoing treatment for it, and those who are on the front line every day in the fight against the virus. How is COVID treated? How do you get through to your doctor? When should you call an ambulance for Covid? How are those who have died from Covid buried? Do doctors receive extra pay for treating COVID? Why is the state failing to pay guaranteed benefits and insurance to the families of deceased medical staff? Do the vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca) work? What is the situation with oxygen in hospitals? Are quarantine and lockdown necessary? What will happen with the Delta variant? You can find answers to all these questions in the film.

Three short films united by the city of Berdichev...

• Berdychiv Paris
• Berdychiv-Kyiv: the path to revolution
• Berdychiv Broadway