Screening of and discussion on Bénédicte Banet’s Holodomor, the Forgotten Genocide
Red Hall, Cinema House
The film by Bénédicte Banet, a French director who’d become a patriot of Ukraine. Incisively touching stories told by elderly people who witnessed Holodomor, interviews with researchers and Ukrainian politicians, archived documents and footages from soviet film chronicles were skillfully used by the author to create a film that cannot be watched without a deep feeling of compassion. The topic had been kept silent about for decades, and the film reveals hidden secrets and personal stories of those who’d become witnesses – and victims – of those horrible events.
The screening will be followed by an open discussion about political repressions in the Soviet Union, Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide against Ukrainian people, its outcomes for Ukrainians, and generally about the issue of condemnation for communist crimes in the USSR and Soviet Ukraine.
Participants:
Volodymyr Talishchak, the Deputy Head of National Memory Insitute;
Volodymyr Vasylenko, expert in international law and Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, professor;
Yuriy Shapoval, Doctor of History, professor; Nina Lapchynska, Honored Culture Expert and Editor in Chief of the internet portal Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Kharkiv Oblast.
Moderator – Oleksandr Zinchenko, advisor of Head of National Memory Institute.
