Laila Pakalnina

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 the camera operator’s directions: a small step to the left, a little…

Every film is about time, but ours maybe a bit more than every.

This is a film about the efforts put into making a spoon that can be thrown away so effortlessly.

A film about everything changing while remaining the same. Or rather – everything remaining the same while changing.

In the middle of nowhere there is a shop called Dream

What to do with the widest waterfall in Europe?

The film is about wondering why the world is the place it is.

I wish to bring out something from inside of the marathon run for those who do not run it because they don’t want or because they can’t. For example, for my mum, whose legs are aching. I am acting like a spy sent in the…

Once upon a time there was a chimney. By the chimney – three houses. In the three houses – seven girls. All of them blondes. This light portrait of a unique children’s microcosm consists of scenes from daily life, in…

If the entire world can be reflected in a single drop of dew (and it can!), then why couldn’t it fit onto a single bicycle road in Latvia? A film about a world that walks, runs, crawls, sits, rides, flies. And falls. A…

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

Every day, come rain or shine, Theodore used to bike the seven kilometres from his house to the village centre to sit and drink beer in the bus stop. For him, no doubt, this place was the centre of the Universe. With…

This will be a story of a dumpsite – a singularly human kind of formation and a biotope in its own right. In choosing this seemingly unglamorous subject matter we are guided neither by social pathos, nor by “green”…