My Babushka: Searching Ukranian Identities
- Director: Barbara Hammer
- Producer: Barbara Hammer
CGiii Comment
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 I, a feminist activist and pioneer of lesbian cinema, return to a 'homeland' full of struggling as people search for a new post-glasnost identity.
Trailer...
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities by barbarahammer.com from barbara hammer on Vimeo.
Cast & Characters
Vera Berdashevich as Herself - film director;
Vadim Bezprozvany as Himself - curator;
Greesha Felanovsky as Herself - jounalist;
Alexander Ficinko as Himself - gay magazine publisher;
Natalia Filonenko as Herself - artist;
Barbara Hammer as Herself - filmmaker;
Anna Buchack Kusz as Herself - great grandmother;
Marta Kuzma as Herself - Kiev Soros Center director;
Lubov Nalapkina as Herself - Chernobyl activist;
Linda Olstein as Herself - visual artist;
Rita Ostrovskaya as Herself - photographer;
Nelia Pasichnyk as Herself - filmmaker;
Ludmilla Pekar as Herself - physisist;
Alice Perry as Herself - camerawoman;
Nadia Paulina Pivla as Herself - relative of Barbara Hammer