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. When the independence struggle is to be suppressed by military power, the people in Riga erect barricades. Laila Pakalniņa captured the dramatic events whose topicality is frightening.
Laila Pakalnina
Writer, Director
The Class of ‘9271%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Directed by John Ford70%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Fuck64%
Report61%
180° South72%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
28 Up75%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Ronaldo69%
Wick Is Pain74%
Bitter Lake75%
Night Will Fall76%
Western Stars70%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Public Speaking70%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
For Sama82%
