Babushka (2021)
25m
Running Time
November 12, 2021Release Date
Babushka (2021)
25m
Running Time
November 12, 2021Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
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.
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Details.
This Movie Is About.
family
reconciliation
grandmother
memories
grandmother granddaughter relationship
Wiki.
Babushka is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Kristina Wagenbauer and released in 2021. The film documents Wagenbauer's trip to Russia to visit her maternal grandmother, Valentina Nikolaevna Krasiuk, whom she has not seen in person in 25 years.
The film premiered in November 2021 at the Montreal International Documentary Festival.The film was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Iris nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards.