Laila Pakalnina Filmes

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,...

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

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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 late 1950s. Every night, Soviet tractors comb the coast of Latvia looking for signs of anyone who could have infiltrated the Soviet border from...

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

An insight into who Kondrāts Ubāns was – painter, teacher, father, friend.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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,...