Laila Pakalnina Movies

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

Those of us who fly in airplanes probably don’t think about those who fly through Riga Airport on their own wings. But on any given day, up 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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

Rubiks’ Road is a bicycle path built in the 1980s and named after Alfreds Rubiks, leader of the Latvian Communist party at the time. One of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...