Laila Pakalnina Movies

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...

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.

He really is a superhero - He hides people in the cellar. And then He finally wants to be happy - He goes to another woman, leaving his wife, his...

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

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

It is what it is. One needs a reason to get a passer-by to stop in their tracks and stand in front of the camera for a while. In this case the reason...

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

The camera stands in a house, the lens pointing through the window, outdoors, where the occupants of the home are standing. They respond patiently to...

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,...

The intimacy of passing by. Heading home, to work, to see a friend, to buy dinner, or perhaps to the cinema. As the seasons change, we encounter...

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...

Little Anna is waiting for her first Christmas.

The Latvian director’s graduation film from Moscow Film School does not deliver images loyal to the regime but is a testimony to her...

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

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

Various people on the street stand stock still in front of the movie camera as though their photograph were about to be taken. This lasts just a few...

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 Stoļarova congregation is building its own church.