My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001 · Documentary · 53 min. · United States
This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for her own ethnic roots, identity and family history in Ukraine. Issues of human rights, anti-Semitism, homophobia, feminism and a divided and economically-depressed country are encountered as Barbara Hammer, a feminist activist and pioneer of lesbian cinema, return to a “homeland” full of struggling as people search for a new post-glasnost identity.
Direction Barbara Hammer
Cast Barbara Hammer · Vera Berdashevich · Vadim Bezprozvany · Greesha Felanovsky · Alexander Ficinko · Natalia Filonenko
Screenplay Barbara Hammer
Cinematography Barbara Hammer · Nelia Pasichnyk · Alice Perry
Original title My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
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