Laila Pakalnina Movies

The world seen through the eyes of children. The action takes place in Karosta, the former military port of Liepaja city – however, it is not...

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...

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

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

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

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.

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,...

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 story about life in two minutes.

The Stoļarova congregation is building its own church.

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...

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...

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...

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...

He really is a superhero - He hides people in the cellar. And then He finally wants to be happy - He goes to another woman, leaving his wife, his...

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...

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...

An insight into who Kondrāts Ubāns was – painter, teacher, father, friend.

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