My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
Jan 01 2001
•1h 53m
•History, Documentary
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.
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Barbara Hammer
Self
Vera Berdashevich
Self
Vadim Bezprozvany
Self
Greesha Felanovsky
Self
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