My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

Release Date: 2001-01-01

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.

Rating: 4 / 10

Crew

  • Barbara Hammer - Director

  • Barbara Hammer - Producer

  • Barbara Hammer - Editor

  • Barbara Hammer - Camera Operator

  • Nelia Pasichnyk - Camera Operator

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