My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

    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.

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    Cast

    • Barbara HammerSelf
    • Vera BerdashevichSelf
    • Vadim BezprozvanySelf
    • Greesha FelanovskySelf
    • Alexander FicinkoSelf
    • Natalia FilonenkoSelf
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