Laila Pakalnina Movies

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

This film is about wondering why the world is the place that it is. Wondering, why beauty often lies in simplicity, or why taking something too...

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

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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

A story about life in two minutes.

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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...