# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laila-pakalnina
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:42:57.544Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laila-pakalnina"
name: "Laila Pakalniņa"
slug: "laila-pakalnina"
description: "Laila Pakalniņa is a Latvian film director and screenwriter. She has directed more than 20 films since 1991. Her film Kurpe was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival."
tagline: "Latvian film director (born 1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laila_Pakalni%C5%86a.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-06-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.38
  momentum:             3.818181818181819
  historical:           10.53880533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0657084/"
    handle:    "nm0657084"
sources:
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    title: "Лайла Пакалніня"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "لايلا پاكالنينا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Pakalni%C5%86a"
    title: "Laila Pakalniņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Pakalni%C5%86a"
    title: "Laila Pakalniņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Pakalni%C5%86a"
    title: "Laila Pakalniņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Pakalni%C5%86a"
    title: "Laila Pakalniņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Pakalni%C5%86a"
    title: "Laila Pakalniņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BC%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AC%D5%A1_%D5%8A%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%B5%D5%A1"
    title: "Լայլա Պակալնինյա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Pakalni%C5%86a"
    title: "Laila Pakalniņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Pakalni%C5%86a"
    title: "Laila Pakalniņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Pakalni%C5%86a"
    title: "Laila Pakalniņa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8F%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Пакалниня, Лайла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3216358"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1086269"
    title: "Laila Pakalnina"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump