Join us for commemoration of the 3 years of the full-scale invasion and 11 years of war for the movie screening and conversation about Ukrainian fight for their freedom and decades-long human rights violations of Ukrainians from the time of Holodomor (1932-1933) to the full scale war in 2022.

The Ukrainian Association of South Africa and the Embassy of Ukraine are inviting you to the movie “Family Album” that was written and directed by Maryna Tkachuk. In the movie, British photographer Samara Pierce discovers and tells the story.

Ten years ago, British photographer Samara Pearce accidentally learned an incredible story about her family: her great-grandfather, Austrian Alexander Wienerberger, witnessed the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933. He took historical photos of starving Kharkiv with his camera, managed to take them as diplomatic mail to Austria, and thus became the main photographer of the Holodomor in Ukraine. Wienerberger wanted the world to know about the genocide of Ukrainians and stop it, but the Austrian engineer was not heard. After finding her great-grandfather’s camera and an album with shocking photos from Ukraine, Samara completely rethinks her photography career. Now, her career is completely connected to Ukraine, the Holodomor, and the current Russian Ukrainian war.

Feeling a connection to her great-grandfather, 90 years after the Holodomor, Samara embarks on a creative expedition to the Kharkiv region to take her own photographs of the genocide of Ukrainians that continue to this day.

The movie trailer click here.

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