CinemaOSMovie · 2021 · 0h 25m

Babushka

A Canadian director visits her grandmother in Russia after 25 years of separation. Travelling through family memories and those of a country, this roller coaster of emotions invites us into an intimate space for reconciliation.

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Twenty-five years after she moved away, Canadian filmmaker Kristina Wagenbauer (a participant in the 2019 Talent Lab) returns to her native Russia to visit her grandmother – her Babushka – with whom she spent part of her childhood, in this film brimming with tenderness and humour. The two women reflected in the mirror bear an undeniable resemblance, and each seeks to recognize herself in the other. Plumbing her memories, Wagenbauer hopes to re-establish a lost bond of intimacy and to confront the wounds of the past. Babushka has survived the Second World War, the break-up of the Soviet Union, the void that her daughter and granddaughter left behind when they moved abroad, and, more recently, the death of the love of her life. Despite all of this, she holds to life with a strong spirit of resilience.

Directed byKristina Wagenbauer

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 25m
Language
RU
Released
November 12, 2021
Studios
TAK Films

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Creative team
Directed by
Kristina Wagenbauer
Kristina Wagenbauer
Written by
Kristina Wagenbauer
Kristina Wagenbauer
Produced by
Line Sander Egede
Line Sander Egede

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