The new Latvian series Soviet Jeans won the Audience Award at the Series Mania 2024 festival. As the organizers note, this prize is awarded to the audience's favorite series among all the titles in competition - except for Short Forms, voted on at the end of each screening.

Kārlis Arnolds Avots also won the award for Best Actor in the International Panorama competition.

The story: In the late 1970s – at a time when the fiercest propaganda against Western culture was being waged through the USSR – an ardent rock and roll fan sets up a successful and illegal underground jeans factory in a Latvian psychiatric hospital.

The series was produced by Tasse Film for Go3. Beta Film holds the international distribution rights.