Top director Ilze Burkovska-Jakobsen’s short film “Follow Me” / Article / LSM.lv

The Latvian premiere of the internationally successful animated film at the end of September “My favorite war“Its director Ilze Burkovska-Jakobsen has not been allowed to put her hands on her lap and relax at all. The director, who lives in Norway and Latvia, is currently actively working on the Norwegian version of this film, as well as filming his latest work here in Riga – the short film “Atseko man”. –

It will be a deep relationship story about a granddaughter who lives with her grandmother because her mother went to work in England.

“I think a lot about family and relationships between people close to me, my grandmothers have also been very important in my life, and I wanted to find a story that might be something amazing,” says director Ilze Burkovska-Jakobsen.

Although the story is very relevant and common nowadays, it is less typical that in this film the relationship is played out between adults.

The director explains: “In children’s films, we film children who have contact with their grandparents and there are those interesting adventures.

But here the granddaughter has already grown up, she has her own thoughts, desires and goals in life, and they are different from what her grandmother had intended or what she would like. ”

The main roles are played by the actress of the National Theater Inta Tirole and the new actress of the Valmiera Theater Klinta Reinholde. They both say that we must definitely talk about such twists and turns in the relationship.

“It’s not just a story about women, I think it could just as well be a grandson and a grandfather, but I think this story is important, because at the bottom is also its power in women and its connection,” says Klinta. Reinholde.

Inta Tirole, on the other hand, notes: “Because you are younger with your parents – the younger always gives advice to the older and the older as a grandmother wants to impose his thinking. And so it seems to me for all generations. ”

In the technology-filled and fast pace of modern life, it is customary to believe that different generations live in their own bubble. The film’s director Ilze Burkovska-Jakobsen does not agree with that.

She emphasizes, “As soon as you go to each of your families, it’s like ‘I’m learning this from my granddaughter,'” says the grandmothers. Because grandchildren teach new things and technologies. There are also children, young people who want to visit their grandmother with love and are waiting for their grandmother’s meatballs, and this love already exists in everyday life, only he is differently formulated and lived differently, but as soon as we enter certain families, we see that love yes, only he is less visible in society. ”

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