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MY FAVORITE WAR

MANS MĪĻĀKAIS KARŠ

By Ilze BURKOVSKA- JACOBSEN

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Animation - Completed 2020

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 fundamen

Festivals
& Awards

Fest. Animation Annecy - MIFA 2020

French Critics Award

Fest. Animation Annecy - MIFA 2020

Winner of Annecy Contrechamp Competition

IAFF 2020

Special Distinction Prize

New Chitose Animation Festival 2020

Grand Prix

Latvian National Film Award 2020

Best Animation Director

Latvian National Film Award 2020

Best Animated Film

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Animation, Documentary, Female director
- Countries
- NORWAY, LATVIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, LATVIAN
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 82 mn
- Director(s)
- Ilze BURKOVSKA- JACOBSEN
- Writer(s)
- Ilze BURKOVSKA- JACOBSEN
- Producer(s)
- Trond JACOBSEN (Bivrost Film & TV), Guntis TREKTERIS (EGO MEDIA)
- Synopsis
- My Favorite War is an animated documentary telling the personal story of its director, Ilze, about her growing up in the Cold-War USSR. It is an exciting coming-of-age story about finding one’s own identity, truth and loyalty.
  First, we meet Ilze as a little girl playing war at her granddad ́s farm, then she is faced with the horror of war threats at school. Ilze lives in a clash between the Soviet reality and pro- paganda denying what people actually are experiencing. Moreover, Ilze also finds out how opposite in their beliefs are people whom she loves the most.
  
  The film is about choices a girl has to make in a very young age, then getting wiser and finding courage to speak out.

MY FAVORITE WAR

MANS MĪĻĀKAIS KARŠ

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