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Cat on My Mind

Cat on My Mind

Es domāju par kaķi Director Laila Pakalniņa

1 hr. 25 min. · Latvia, 2025 · Documentary · Latvian · Subtitles: Lithuanian, English · Pegi 13

About the film

Acclaimed Latvian documentarian Laila Pakalniņa constructs a portrait of an unknown photographer from an archive of black-and-white negatives discovered by chance beside a rubbish bin. Naming him Anton, she imagines him and his son Raitis photographing neighbours, piglets, domestic scenes and a trip to the seaside. He also recalls a long-lost cat. Pakalniņa spins a playfully chaotic, formally adventurous tale that pays tribute to analogue photography and twentieth-century Latvia.
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Details

Running time
1 hr. 25 min.
Country, year
Latvia, 2025
Genre
Documentary
Language
Latvian
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Age rating
Pegi 13

Credits

Director
Laila Pakalniņa
Cinematography
Gints Bērziņš
Cast
Andreja Strokins, Ralfs Neifalts, Mikass Bucmis, Laila Gintere
More information
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Laila Pakalniņa

Director

Laila Pakalniņa

Laila Pakalniņa was born in Latvia in 1962. She graduated in television journalism from Moscow State University in 1986 and in documentary film directing from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1991. Her films regularly screen at international festivals and are also familiar to Lithuanian audiences, including those at Scanorama. Blurring the boundary between fiction and documentary, The Shoe was the first feature from independent Latvia to appear at Cannes, where it screened in Un Certain Regard in 1998.

Screenings

3 screenings in 2 cities.

  1. Saturday, November 14 16:00 Forum Cinemas Vingis · Hall 11 Tickets
  2. Sunday, November 15 13:10 Skalvija · Hall 1 Tickets