Director
Laila Pakalnina
64 years · Liepaja, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia] · 44 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 44
Scarecrows
2026 · Director, Writer
Cat on My Mind
2025 · Director, Writer
Termini
2024 · Self, Director
On DocAlliance Films
Homes
2021 · Director, Producer
On DocAlliance Films
In the Mirror
2020 · Director, Producer
On DocAlliance Films
The First Bridge
2020 · Director, Writer
On True Story
Spoon
2019 · Director, Writer
On Fawesome
Hello, Horse!
2017 · Director, Producer
On GuideDoc
Waterfall
2016 · Director, Producer
Dream
2016 · Director, Writer
Dawn
2015 · Writer, Director
Hey, Rasma!
2015 · Director, Producer
On Plex
Face
2014 · Producer
Hotel and a Ball
2014 · Director, Producer
A Dream of Snow
2014 · Director
Short Film About Life
2014 · Director, Producer
The Chimney
2013 · Writer, Producer
Forty Two
2013 · Director, Writer
Pizzas
2012 · Director, Producer
Snow Crazy
2012 · Director, Writer
On DocAlliance Films
33 Animals of Santa Claus
2011 · Director, Writer
On DocAlliance Films
On Rubik's Road
2010 · Writer, Director
Silence (Elements)
2009 · Director, Writer
Stones (Elements)
2008 · Writer, Director