The Linen

Ropa de cama
Laila Pakalniņa
Latvia
1991
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Description

The Linen is a silent dissertation on the daily life of a truck driver who delivers clean linens to a children's hospital. He unloads the sheets and divides them up among the wards, where small, gripping dramas of life and death are unfolding. And every day, it's the same story.

Awards and festivals

- Visions du Reel -International Film Festival Nyon (2013)
- BAFICI- Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (2009)
- IDFA- Section: Focus: First Films of Famous Filmmakers (2006)

 

Biography of the director

Laila Pakalniņa
Born in 1962 in Liepāja, Latvia. In 1986 she graduated from Moscow University’s Department of TV Journalism. She continued her studies in the Department of Film Directing at the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK), graduating in 1991. Laila is the director and scriptwriter of 21 documentaries, 5 shorts, 3 features.

Features: Silence (Klusums) 2009, Stones (Akmeņi) 2008, Fire (Uguns) 2007, The Hostage (Ķīlnieks) 2006, Water (Ūdens) 2006, The Python (Pitons) 2003, The Shoe (Kurpe) 1998, Anna’s Christmas (Annas Ziemassvētki) 1992.

Documentaries: Snow Crazy (Sniegs) 2012, 33 Animals of Santa Claus (33 zvēri Ziemassvētki vecītim) 2011, On Rubiks’ Road (Pa Rubika ceļu) 2010, Three Men and Fish Pond (Par dzimtenīti) 2008, Theodore (Teodors) 2006, Dream Land (Leiputrija) 2004, The Bus (Autobuss) 2004, It’ll Be Fine (Būs labi) 2004, Martins (Mārtiņš) 2002, Papa Gena (Papa Gena) 2001, Wake up (Mostieties) 2000, The Oak (Ozols) 1997, Ubans (Ubāns) 1995, The Mail (Pasts) 1995, The Ferry (Prāmis) 1994, The Church (Baznīca) 1993, The Pilgrimage (Iešana) 1991, The Linen (Veļa) 1991, The Dome (Doms) 1991, The Choice (Izvēle) 1990, And (Un) 1988.

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Finished
Sessions

May

Sunday 6

  • 22:00 h
  • Filmoteca Española. Cine Doré Sala 1
Data sheet
Director
Laila Pakalniņa
Language
No dialogues
Screenplay
Laila Pakalniņa
Cinematography
Gints Bērziņš
Editing
Dace Leitāne
Sound
Normunds Kļaviņš, Uldis Siliņš
Producción
Līga Jansone
Production company
Riga Documentary Film Studio