Laila Pakalnina Movies

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, one...

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 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,...

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 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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Little Anna is waiting for her first Christmas.

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

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

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...