Laila Pakalnina

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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. The most important ...

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

There are places that we don’t want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend don’t exist at all. One such place is a dumpsite. ...

This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The morning begins when the mail is delivered – this has been a tradition for almost an eternity. This film looks at daily things, daily ...

The ferry crosses the river, transporting people from one shore to the other, from one country to another. It runs year round, never stopping. ...

A subdued observation of daily life in a children’s hospital. The driver of a delivery van regularly delivers clean linen to the wards ...