Laila Pakalnina Movies

There are places that we don’t want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend don’t exist at all. One such place is a...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Little Anna is waiting for her first Christmas.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

We literally found our film next to a dumpster. It was a bag containing 36 rolls of photographic negatives exposed between the 1960s and 1980s by an...