Laila Pakalnina Movies

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...

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...

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 seem...

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...

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...

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

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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.

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

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

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

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...