Laila Pakalnina Movies

Three elderly country bachelors idle away their time amidst semi-wild nature, closer to birds and pond fish than to humans.

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.

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...

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

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

A subdued observation of daily life in a children's hospital. The driver of a delivery van regularly delivers clean linen to the wards where small,...

Christian youth pilgrimage to Częstochowa, Poland, to meet with the Pope of Rome.

Every day, come rain or shine, Theodore used to bike the seven kilometres from his house to the centre of the village to sit and drink beer in the...

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...

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,...

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...

A story about life in two minutes.

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

The oak tree in Seja is roughly 700 years old. Around this monumental tree, the peaceful and repetitive life goes on in the village, a group of...

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

A man in a grey coat roams the city. He is interested in boys and men. Those good enough for him will get a green bag. Marija is home alone. She is...

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...

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...

Exactly 60 filmmakers were selected and asked to carry out a task that seems simple at first glance; to make a short film that is approximately 3...