Baltic Dox

DREAM LAND

Laila Pakalnina
Screening time  
02.03. / Friday, 14:00 - 16:00 Theatre 5  
There are places that we don’t want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend don’t exist at all...

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. From the humans’ point of view, it is a ghastly place, a stinking desert of trash. But it’s a desert that is teaming with life. The astounding profusion of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals, all intertwined in an existential life-death relationship imparts to it with some strangely alluring dream-like quality.

Laila Pakalnina

Laila Pakalnina was born 1962 in Liepaja, Latvia. She studied television journalism at the University of Moscow and went on to study film at the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK), Department of Film Direction, graduating in 1991. She lives and works in Riga. She wrote and directed of 19 documentaries, five shorts, three feature-lentgh fictions. Several of her films have already been screened at previous ZagrebDox editions.

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Leiputrija

Latvia
2004, 35', color, video

Directed by:
Laila Pakalnina

Cinematography:
Maris Maskalans

Edited by:
Gatis Belogrudovs

Music:
Shigeru Umebayashi

Producer:
Uldis Cekulis

Produced by:
Vides Filmu Studija