It Takes a Family is a family drama about secrets and repressed memories. Director Susanne Kovacs is the grandchild of Jewish Holocaust survivors, and the daughter of a German mother and Danish Jewish father. Her grandparents saw her as a child of the enemy and a constant reminder of their tragic past. When Susanne starts asking difficult questions, she discovers that the war never really ended in her tormented family; somehow, the horrors of the past were always present as a deafening, yet unspoken, trauma.
Susanne Kovács is a TV director from the Danish Media and Journalism School. She previously studied fine arts and narrative storytelling in Germany, and was trained in filmmaking at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark. It Takes A Family is her first mid-length documentary, and was part of the Twelve for the Future Workshop in 2015-2016. Susanne participated in the IDFAcademy in 2016 with the film.