Poland, Ukraine, United Kingdom | 2019 | Feature Film | 141’ | Original Version (English)

In 2022 and 2023, Ukraine will remember the 90th year of the Holodomor, the genocide of Ukrainians through starvation in the 1930s in the Soviet Union.

Why did the world learn about Holodomor so belatedly? How was it reported in the early 1930s?

The biographical thriller "Mr. Jones" starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, and Peter Saarsgard, tells the captivating story of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones. In 1933, Jones was the first to tell about the Holodomor in Ukraine through his reports for the international press.

You can find out more about the film on the website of the Ukrainian Institute in Germany. Also, follow their Instagram: the explainers on the historical and artistic context of Holodomor will be published here in the next few days.

Program

19:30 - Introduction with the Eastern Europe experts historian Dr. Franziska Davies and journalist Thomas Franke on the topic of "Responsible journalism"

Afterwards - the screening of the film "Mr. Jones" by Agnieszka Holland

The screening is organized by the Ukrainian Institute in Germany in cooperation with the Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin and the Goethe-Institut to remember 90 years of the Holodomor in Ukraine.