My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

2001 en 53 minutes

Rating: 5.5

Plot

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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Cast

Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer

Self

Vera Berdashevich

Vera Berdashevich

Self

Vadim Bezprozvany

Vadim Bezprozvany

Self

Greesha Felanovsky

Greesha Felanovsky

Self

Alexander Ficinko

Alexander Ficinko

Self

Natalia Filonenko

Natalia Filonenko

Self

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