
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
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.
- Year: 2001
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: History, Documentary
- Studio: Barbara Hammer Productions
- Keyword: grandparent grandchild relationship, feminism, grandmother, woman director, ukrainian village
- Director: Barbara Hammer
- Cast: Barbara Hammer, Vera Berdashevich, Vadim Bezprozvany, Greesha Felanovsky, Alexander Ficinko, Natalia Filonenko