My Favorite War
Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen | 81:57 | 2020 | Latvia & Norway
RATING: 14+
On-Demand: September 23 to October 4
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Synopsis:
This is the personal story of the director, Ilze, growing up in Cold-War Latvia, USSR. It’s a coming of age story, a personal escape route from the mighty authoritarian regime’s brainwashing. An antiwar film, emphasizing the importance of an individual’s freedom being a democratic society’s fundamental right.
Trailer: Vimeo
Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen
Latvian born film director living and working in both Norway and Latvia. She has done eight documentaries and more that 20 hours of TV animation-/ documentary series.
The documentary My Mother’s Farm was screened in IDFA mid-length competition in 2009, it won the Best Latvian Documentary as well as Best TV Documentary in Norway.
Her company’s TV animation-/ documentary series, “My Body Belongs to Me” won an International Emmy Award in 2018.