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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Barbara Hammer Productions
Keywords
- grandparent grandchild relationship
- feminism
- grandmother
- woman director
- ukrainian village
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Top Cast
Barbara Hammer as Self
Vera Berdashevich as Self
Vadim Bezprozvany as Self
Greesha Felanovsky as Self
Alexander Ficinko as Self
Natalia Filonenko as Self
Top Crew
Barbara Hammer · Director, Editor
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