My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

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• Genre(s): History, Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Barbara Hammer
• Cast(s): Barbara Hammer, Vera Berdashevich, Vadim Bezprozvany, Greesha Felanovsky, Alexander Ficinko See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 53min
• Similar To: The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo, Meet Me in the Bathroom
• Story:
  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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