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San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
By Erica Marcus Barbara Hammer returns with a treat! Last year's Frameline Award honoree and one of the world's most prolific lesbian filmmakers, Hammer brings her vital search for her own ethnic roots and identity to the screen. My Babushka not only explores personal history but is a journey to a nation just beginning to open to the West. Questions of human rights, anti-Semitism, homophobia, feminism, and cultural difference are encountered as the artist meets diverse Ukrainians including a long-lost relative, a controversial feminist sex-researcher, a lesbian activist, and a fellow artist who travels with her to the killing fields of Babi Yar. |