Thousands of people there are 'dying from/of hunger'. [=dying because they do not have enough food; starving to death]
She has threatened to 'go on a hunger strike' [=refuse to eat] if her colleagues are not released from prison.
The film's scenery is beautiful, but the plot is (strictly) 'from hunger'.
(..) Tell me what? Maybe you should ask him. No, I'm asking you. Seth knows no fear... no pain... no hunger. He hears music in the sunrise. But he'd give it all up. He loves you that much. I don't understand. He can fall. (..)1998 City of Angels
(..) to do it and you do it. MESSINGER: You wake up all smelly, and aching from head to toe... and hungrier than you've ever been... only you have no idea what hunger is or any of that stuff... so it's all real confusing and painful, but very, very good. Human. Listen, kid: (..)1998 City of Angels