My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities (2001)
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. grandparent grandchild relationship, feminism, grandmother, woman director, ukrainian village
Released: Jan 01, 2001
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Genre: History, Documentary
Stars: Barbara Hammer, Vera Berdashevich, Vadim Bezprozvany, Greesha Felanovsky, Alexander Ficinko, Natalia Filonenko
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