Laila Pakalnina

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

01 de mai. de 2004

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,...

01 de jan. de 1995

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

18 de set. de 2004

The Hijacker lands the plane at the Rīga Airport. 7 year-old Tom, travelling on his own, voluntarily becomes a hostage. Along with the traditional ...

01 de mai. de 2006

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

30 de jun. de 2019

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...

04 de mai. de 2008

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 fe...

24 de out. de 2024

Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneer (the Soviet equivalent of a Boy Scout) Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret ...

23 de nov. de 2015

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 ...

01 de jan. de 1994

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

01 de set. de 2003

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, on...

30 de ago. de 2011

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 dumpsite. F...

05 de nov. de 2004

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...

01 de mar. de 1998

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 mos...

05 de abr. de 2010

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

19 de nov. de 2021

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 hou...

01 de jan. de 1997

There should be silence in a museum. And someone should see to it that the silence is there. It's the logical order of things. However, it might se...

11 de abr. de 2009

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 physi...

01 de jan. de 2012

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 ...

31 de ago. de 2006

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 she i...

01 de jan. de 2006

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...

17 de abr. de 2020

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 reas...

06 de jun. de 2001

A story about life in two minutes.

01 de jan. de 2014

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,...

01 de jan. de 1991

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 that ...

26 de out. de 2001

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

01 de jan. de 1991

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

22 de nov. de 2020

Um filme sobre tudo o que muda enquanto permanece o mesmo. Ou melhor, tudo o que permanece o mesmo durante a mudança.

21 de ago. de 2017

Even before Marija was born it was clear that she would be a person getting in trouble all the time. However, that’s not all. The most important th...

01 de jan. de 2007

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

04 de mai. de 2008

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

11 de nov. de 2012

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 ...

01 de jan. de 2013

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

17 de abr. de 2016

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

06 de dez. de 2014

01 de jan. de 1992

01 de jan. de 1991

01 de jan. de 1993

27 de dez. de 1995