Feature animation2024 / 2025
Official pageThelma’s Perfect Birthday
A Latvian-Luxembourg co-production directed by Reinis Kalnaellis.
Riga, Latvia
Director, Photographer & Visual Storyteller
I create films, photographs, and visual worlds that move between animation, performance, memory, and myth. My work spans animated features, short films, cinematic portraiture, and hybrid image-making designed to stay with people.
Annecy 2025
Thelma’s Perfect Birthday screened in Annecy Presents.
Berlinale
Singing Hugo and When Apples Roll appeared in Generation.
150+
Festival screenings across animated work and short-form storytelling.
Stable image paths
The photos below are linked as direct repo files.
Photography
A front-page glimpse of the Aiguille du Midi series using direct image files from the repository.
Aiguille du Midi · June 2025
Concert in the clouds
Shot at the top of Aiguille du Midi during the cable car’s 70th anniversary. White figures, drifting balloons, mist, altitude, and a performance that felt half-concert, half-apparition.
Selected work
A curated entry point into internationally visible projects.
Short animationBerlinale 2017
Berlinale listingSinging Hugo and His Incredible Adventures
Playful, musical, visual storytelling with strong character energy.
Debut shortBerlinale 2009
Berlinale archiveWhen Apples Roll
An early international marker of tone, humour, and visual rhythm.
Services
Clear ways to work together.
Direction
Feature and short-form development, animation direction, visual concepting, and story development.
Photography
Cinematic artist portraits, live performance sessions, editorial-feeling imagery, and atmospheric stills.
Visual development
Mood worlds, concept framing, hybrid story experiments, and image systems that help projects feel distinctive.