Agency - English program:.Documentary Program - West.

Director, John Paskievich ; camera, John Paskievich, Linda Danchak ; sound, Robert Hanchar ; editor, Kenneth George Godwin, John Paskievich ; music composer, Julian Kytasty, Richard Moody ; sound editor, Saul Henteleff ; sound mix recording engineer, Serge Boivin, Jean Paul Vialard ; producer, Joe MacDonald ; executive producer, Graydon McCrea.

Recorded 2001.

In a documentary that spans two continents and several generations, acclaimed director John Paskievich delves into the experience of exile and its impact on the human spirit. Almost fifty years after his family fled Ukraine for freedom in Canada, the filmmaker visits his parents' homeland. It's a place both familiar and foreign. Drawing on his years growing up in Winnipeg, Paskievich explores how children of refugees and immigrants are caught between two worlds. While they struggle to put down roots in a new country, they must also preserve traditions of a distant land they have never known. Paskievich's journey through Ukraine is interwoven with stories of displacement from other prominent Ukrainian Canadians--authors George Melnyk and Fran Ponomarenko, filmmaker Bohdana Bashuk, director Halya Kuchmij and dancer Lecia Polujan. A rich tapestry of memory and history, My Mother's Village brings to light the humour, anger, joy and complexity of living between borders.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

BLIZZARD Award - for Best Musical Score, 2003

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).