Laila Pakalnina Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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,...

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

The morning begins when the mail is delivered - this has been a tradition for almost an eternity. This film looks at daily things, daily movements,...

There is a popular Latvian folksong which begins with the phrase "I was singing out high on a mountain". The irony of it is that according to...

Little Anna is waiting for her first Christmas.

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...

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

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

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

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.

A shop by the side of the road. One after another, people enter and exit the small building. The randomness and illogical nature of the action feels...

He really is a superhero – he hides people in his basement. And then he finally wants to be happy – he leaves her, abandoning her –...