February 2021

– DEADLINE, Tom Grater, 23/02/21 EXCLUSIVE: Vienna-based sales outfit EastWest Filmdistribution has taken world rights on My Favorite War, the animated feature doc that was an award winner at Annecy last year, where it world premiered. The film is eligible for this year’s Oscars and Annies. Based on director’s Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s childhood memories of creating her own escape route […]

– FILM NEW EUROPE, Zane Balčus, 18/02/21 RIGA: Latvian box office results show a nearly 70% decrease in 2020 in comparison to 2019. Due to the pandemic, the cinemas were closed in mid-March, allowed to re-open in mid-May with restricted capacity, and closed again at the beginning of November. The attendance reached less than one-third

– VARIETY, Alissa Simon, 21/01/21 The impressive animated memoir “My Favorite War” revisits writer-director Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s childhood in Soviet Latvia in the 1970s and ’80s. The result of a nine-year labor of love from a Norwegian-Latvian team, it combines distinctive cutout animation with family photos and archival footage to forge a look at an authoritarian society