My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities (2001)

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

2001

History Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Barbara Hammer

Cast

Alexander Ficinko as Self

Barbara Hammer as Self

Greesha Felanovsky as Self

Natalia Filonenko as Self

Vadim Bezprozvany as Self

Vera Berdashevich as Self

Crew

Alice Perry (Camera Operator)