Laila Pakalnina Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

A film about the daily life of Martin, a handicapped child who will always be dependent on his parents. Ever since he was very small, Martin has had...

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...

Exactly 60 filmmakers were selected and asked to carry out a task that seems simple at first glance; to make a short film that is approximately 3...

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...

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

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...

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...

A story about life in two minutes.

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

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