My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

2001 | 53 minutes | 1.0 ★ (1)

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
  • 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.

  • Release Date

    01 January 2001

  • DirectingBarbara Hammer
  • Budget

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  • Revenue

    $0.00

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