Laila Pakalnina Movies

A film about everything changing while remaining the same. Or rather – everything remaining the same while changing. We observed this (and...

The ferry crosses the river, transporting people from one shore to the other, from one country to another. It runs year round, never stopping. The...

A film about a plastic spoon and a society that has reached a high level of development – oil is being retrieved from subterranean depths,...

This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different...

Maria decides to go for a swim in the pool even though it looks deserted and she’s warned that the water is cold. When she gets into the pool...

The late 1950s. Every night, Soviet tractors comb the coast of Latvia looking for signs of anyone who could have infiltrated the Soviet border from...

Just like ordinary people, whole nations often wonder why their neighbors are living better than they are. For example, where did the Estonians...

Those of us who fly in airplanes probably don’t think about those who fly through Riga Airport on their own wings. But on any given day, up to...

Rubiks’ Road is a bicycle path built in the 1980s and named after Alfreds Rubiks, leader of the Latvian Communist party at the time. One of the...

An absurdist farce centering around a school in post-Soviet Latvia. After a rather disgusting prank (someone defecates in the school attic), the...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

The First Bridge is a film about frontiers, barriers, the ways to cross over and see what goes on, on the other side. But it also a film about time,...

The world seen through the eyes of children. The action takes place in Karosta, the former military port of Liepaja city – however, it is not...

As soon as I finished my first marathon, I wanted to become a tripod in order to make a film about it. That is because words are certainly not the...

Once upon a time there was a chimney. By the chimney - there were three houses. In the houses there were seven girls. All of them - blondes.

Playfully avant-garde and exhibiting an intriguing sense of humor, PIZZAS offers a puzzle of widescreen imagery, brash pop moments, and road movie...

Santa Claus lives on the fourth floor of an apartment block. Santa owns seven dogs, six cats, two rabbits, one crow, one pigeon, one chinchilla, one...

His own image in the mirror was so important that one day he didn’t find himself there.

A CrossFit trainer becomes the father of a baby girl, Snow White. Snow White’s mother dies, and her father marries a young...

Waterfall and I, and – no, the other way around! This film is, of course, about nature – human nature. Or – what a human can do...