Laila Pakalnina Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...