ON RUBIKS´ROAD

CountryLatvia Year2010 Duration30 min. DirectionLaila Pakalnina WriterLaila Pakalnina PhotographyUldis Jancis EditorKaspar Kallas Production Laila Pakalnina

Spanish premiere

Visual rhymes, resonant rhymes and a very precise editing in a film that is secretly politic, visual and fascinating sound wise. A road in Latvia, pedestrians, children, and several stations that go around, dance, and walk close to a still very recent past. The entire world fits onto a single bicycle road.

Awards
Special Mention, Vilnius International Documentary Film festival, Lituania; Best Short Documentary, Doclisboa International Film Festival.

Festivals
Venice IFF; Vilnius Documentary Film Festival; Doclisboa IFF; Taiwan international documentary festival; 14th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival; New waves, new ways, Prague.

Laila Pakalnina

Laila Pakalniņa was born in 1962 in Liepāja, Latvia. In 1986 she graduated from the Moscow University, Department of TV Journalism. She continued her studies in the Department of Film Direction at the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK), graduating in1991. Laila is director and scriptwriter of 19 documentaries, 5 shorts, 3 features. So altogether she has 27 films, 2 children, 1 husband, 1 dog, 1 bicycle.

Filmography
On Rubiks’ Road (2010)
Silence (2009)
Three Men and Fish Pond (2008)
Stones (2008)
Fire (2007)
Theodore (2006)
The Hostage (2006)
Water (2006)
Dream Land (2004)
The Bus (2004)
It’ll Be Fine (2004)
The Python (2003)
Martins (2002)
Papa Gena (2001)
Wake up (2000)
The Shoe (1998)
The Oak (Ozols) (1997)
Ubans (1995)
The Mail (1995)
The Ferry (1994)
The Church (1993)
Anna’s Christmas (1992)
The Pilgrimage (1991)
The Linen (1991)
The Dome (1991)
The Choice (1990)