The international documentary film festival “Artdocfest / Riga” will be opened on March 3 at the cinema “Splendid Palace” with the premiere of director Ieva Ozolina’s latest film “My Mother Country”.
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According to the filmmakers, “My Mother’s Country” will be an intriguing and emotional story about a woman’s search for four sisters who were separated as children as a result of adoption.
At the center of the film is Una, a Latvian living in Iceland, who decides to find her sister lost through adoption. The work can be called a documentary detective, the search for nurses has been going on for several years and the filming took place in Latvia, the Netherlands, Russia, America and Iceland. This will be the third film by documentary filmmaker Ieva Ozoliņa and will symbolically close the trilogy on the family theme. The theme of the film touches on such topics as a sense of belonging, the need for family and loved ones. At the same time, the question of the shortcomings of the adoption law and the change of identity is asked.
“Paradoxically, Una’s sister Zane had also gone to the archives to look for her sister, but the law forbade it and it was only during the making of the film that it became possible. The film asks a lot of questions about the adoption and privacy law There is no single way to think about these issues, but Una makes an “impossible” task during the film’s process and the viewer will have the opportunity to follow this detective as well as Una’s own changes during the film. “the ability to get closer to the heroes and reveal them in an emotional way,” writes the filmmakers.
The film is included in the screening of the Baltic competition at the festival “Artdocfest / Riga” and will be shown on LMT smart TV and cinemas from March 4.
Ieva Ozoliņa is known to the general public with the film “My Father Banker” and the internationally acclaimed “Given Size My Mother”.
The cinematographer of “My Mother Country” is Mārcis Slavinskis, producer Madara Melberga and the film was made in the studio FA Filma with the support of the Latvian National Film Center and is a co-produced film with the Icelandic film studio “Republik”, producer Larus Jonssons.
It has already been reported that from March 3 to 8, the Second International Documentary Film Festival “Artdocfest / Riga” will take place, where viewers will be able to watch 28 documentaries from 14 countries.
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