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 documentary film about the youth wings of Ukrainian political parties tells the story of four party-affiliated youth groups: Solidarity Youth, Batkivshchyna Moloda, Young People's Movement and Ze!Molodizhka.

In the film, you will find answers to the following questions: Why do we need youth political wings? How does this institution work abroad? What do young people do and how do they get involved in political life in youth organizations? The authors also collected a lot of insights and personal stories. They tried to convey the atmosphere that rages in the branches of youth wings and explained how the youth wings of parties can help to realize their own ambitions and projects.

The project is implemented with the financial support of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).