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Laila Pakalniņa is a Latvian art-house filmmaker. She graduated from the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK), Department of Film Direction, in 1991. A director and scriptwriter of 31 documentaries, 5 shorts, and 5 fiction features, altogether she has 41 films, 2 children, 1 husband, 2 dogs and 2 bicycles. Her films have screened in official programmes at Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Rome and other international festivals, where they have won numerous awards.
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22 November 2020
A CrossFit trainer becomes the father of a baby girl, Snow White. Snow White’s mother dies, and her father marries a young woman obsessed with CrossFit and herself.
11 April 2009
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.
01 January 2006
Maria decides to go for a swim in the pool even though it looks deserted and she’s warned that the water is cold.
04 May 2008
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.
01 January 2007
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.
01 January 1994
The ferry crosses the river, transporting people from one shore to the other, from one country to another.
01 March 1998
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 the sea.
30 June 2019
A film about a plastic spoon and a society that has reached a high level of development – oil is being retrieved from subterranean depths, transported to processing plants, turned into plastic, transported to another plant, where it acquires the shape of a spoon, transported to convenience stores, where we buy it, and is then soon tossed into the trash.
01 January 2014
A story about life in two minutes.
01 January 1993
The Stoļarova congregation is building its own church.
01 January 1995
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, daily life and the daily routines of the postman, which are nevertheless meaningful to those who await and receive newspapers and letters.
01 September 2003
An absurdist farce centering around a school in post-Soviet Latvia. After a rather disgusting prank (someone defecates in the school attic), the tyrannical headmistress deems that no one can leave until the culprit is caught.
24 October 2024
The intimacy of passing by. Heading home, to work, to see a friend, to buy dinner, or perhaps to the cinema.
17 April 2020
The First Bridge is a film about frontiers, barriers, the ways to cross over and see what goes on, on the other side.
27 December 1995
An insight into who Kondrāts Ubāns was – painter, teacher, father, friend.
19 November 2021
The camera stands in a house, the lens pointing through the window, outdoors, where the occupants of the home are standing.
01 May 2004
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
10 March 2015
Just like ordinary people, whole nations often wonder why their neighbors are living better than they are.
30 August 2011
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 guinea pig, ten degus and some fish.
05 April 2010
Rubiks’ Road is a bicycle path built in the 1980s and named after Alfreds Rubiks, leader of the Latvian Communist party at the time.
01 January 1992
Little Anna is waiting for her first Christmas.
23 November 2015
Based on a Soviet propaganda story about Young Pioneer (the Soviet equivalent of a Boy Scout) Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family.
01 May 2006
The Hijacker lands the plane at the Rīga Airport. 7 year-old Tom, travelling on his own, voluntarily becomes a hostage.
01 January 1991
Christian youth pilgrimage to Częstochowa, Poland, to meet with the Pope of Rome.
06 June 2001
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.
26 October 2001
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 that important, as the film could take place anywhere.
01 January 1997
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 houses in the middle of the forest.
27 April 2014
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 seriously might result in the ridiculous, as playing can be at once the most important and serious thing to do.
03 March 2026
Those of us who fly in airplanes probably don’t think about those who fly through Riga Airport on their own wings.
10 November 2002
A film about the daily life of Martin, a handicapped child who will always be dependent on his parents.
17 April 2016
Waterfall and I, and – no, the other way around! This film is, of course, about nature – human nature.
01 January 1991
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, tense dramas of life and death are played out.
21 August 2017
A film about everything changing while remaining the same. Or rather – everything remaining the same while changing.
11 April 2014
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 minutes long.
31 August 2006
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 bus stop.
01 January 2013
As soon as I finished my first marathon, I wanted to become a tripod in order to make a film about it.
01 January 1991
The Latvian director’s graduation film from Moscow Film School does not deliver images loyal to the regime but is a testimony to her journalistic background.
18 September 2004
This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different countries and crosses 3 different borders.
05 November 2004
There are places that we don’t want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend don’t exist at all.
01 January 2016
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 unreal.
11 November 2012
Playfully avant-garde and exhibiting an intriguing sense of humor, PIZZAS offers a puzzle of widescreen imagery, brash pop moments, and road movie ambience.
01 January 2012
There is a popular Latvian folksong which begins with the phrase "I was singing out high on a mountain".
13 November 2025
We literally found our film next to a dumpster. It was a bag containing 36 rolls of photographic negatives exposed between the 1960s and 1980s by an unknown photographer.
04 May 2013
Once upon a time there was a chimney. By the chimney - there were three houses. In the houses there were seven girls.
06 December 2014
His own image in the mirror was so important that one day he didn’t find himself there.
04 May 2008
Three elderly country bachelors idle away their time amidst semi-wild nature, closer to birds and pond fish than to humans.
01 January 2004
Various people on the street stand stock still in front of the movie camera as though their photograph were about to be taken.
