My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities (2001)

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 : January 1, 2001

Runtime : 53m

Genre : History, Documentary  

Companies : Barbara Hammer Productions

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : grandparent grandchild relationship, feminism, grandmother, woman director, ukrainian village