Laila Pakalnina Movies

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

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 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 world seen through the eyes of children. The action takes place in Karosta, the former military port of Liepaja city – however, it is not...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

Little Anna is waiting for her first Christmas.

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...

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,...

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,...

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

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...

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...