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My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities (2001)

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities (2001)

History Documentary
Release Date: 2001, January 1
Directors: Barbara Hammer
Countries: United States of America
Production: Barbara Hammer Productions
Cast: Vera Berdashevich, Vadim Bezprozvany, Greesha Felanovsky, Alexander Ficinko, Natalia Filonenko

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

woman director feminism grandparent grandchild relationship grandmother ukrainian village