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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 ...

As a little girl growing up in Cold War Latvia, Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen found German bones in her sandbox. Wondering why her mother had trouble buying butter when the school cook was taking food home, ...

The animated film awards race this year once again features stellar family film offerings from the big studios as well as boutique powerhouses such as Cartoon Saloon and distributor GKids, but there ...

A version of this story about “My Favorite War” first appeared in the Oscar Nominations Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. An animated documentary that mixes history and a personal story in ...