Laila Pakalnina Movies

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...

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...

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

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

Just like ordinary people, whole nations often wonder why their neighbors are living better than they are. For example, where did the Estonians...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

Little Anna is waiting for her first Christmas.

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...

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...