Anastasia Lapsui

Matka

Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio

Nekochako Lapsui, Parasi Puiko

Nedarma (Travelling) is one of several documentary features co-directed by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio that portray the daily lives of the Nenets, Lapsui’s tribe based in the northern tundra of Siberia. The film invokes Nenets cosmology as a way of leading into a filmic structure that portrays the arc of life from birth to death.

Pyhä

Johannes Lehmuskallio, Anastasia Lapsui

Maryan Abdulkarim, Tarja Halonen

Seitsemän laulua tundralta

Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio

Anatoli Hudi, Igor Hudi

An anthology of stories about the indigenous nomadic people of the Russian tundra under modern Communist rule. Finland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000

Elämän äidit

Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio

A documentary on the experiences of the Nubetya Yaptiks nomadic family in the Yamal Peninsula, Eastern Siberia, from 1992 to 2001.

Sukunsa viimeinen

Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio

A little Nenets girl Neko is taken against her will from her home to a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign culture and new customs, Neko rebels and decides to flee, hoping to get back to her family and old habits.

Fata Morgana

Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio

A look into the recent history of the Chukchi people.

Tsamo

Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio

In the 1860’s Alaska and Finland are simultaneously parts of the Russian Empire. A Finnish mining engineer Simon buys an Alaskan native American girl and decides to bring her to Finland. The child, Tsamo, is baptized and Simon starts to teach her European manners. Tsamo thinks she’s married to Simon and acts accordingly, but when Simon marries a lady of his own age and class, she gets confused. Simon is forced to send the girl away and the battle over Tsamo’s identity takes complicated turns.

Jumalan morsian

Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio

Jana Hudi

An elderly Nenets woman in teepee on northern Russia's Yamal Peninsula recounts her early life betrothed to a deity for the entertainment of a blind young girl. In the Nenets culture, a girl child can be married to holiest of holies, Num, before or after her birth. Lonely old Numd' Syarda (which means, literally, 'tied to Num') entertains the blind young Ilne ('giver of life') with stories of how she became one of these chosen few.