Anastasia Lapsui

Pyhä (2017)

Tsamo (2015)

In the 1860's Alaska and Finland are simultaneously parts of the Russian Empire. A Finnish mining engineer Simon buys a Tlingit girl named Tsamo and decides to bring her to Finland. The child, Tsamo, is baptized and Simon starts to teach her European mann ...

Minja (2014)

A fertilized egg develops into a human. He is born, lives his life and eventually dies. Human life is a journey, the path we take from birth to death. The film is a story about the journey of Minja's life. At the end of the film, there is a dedication to ...

Yksitoista ihmisen kuvaa (2012)

A documentary co-directed by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio presenting the mind and thoughts of artists who lived before the history of writing. ...

Pudana: Last of the Line (2010)

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. ...

Earth Evocation (2009)

The history of Finland through traces of the past. ...

Travelling (2008)

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 w ...

Fata Morgana (2004)

Story about life and death according to Chukchi people who live in Chukchi Peninsula as far in the East as one can go. ...

A Bride of the Seventh Heaven (2004)

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 h ...

Mothers of Life (2002)

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

Seven Songs from the Tundra (2000)

An anthology of stories about the indigenous Nenet peoples of the Northern Russian tundra, and how their way of life was disrupted by the advent of Soviet power. ...

Uhri - elokuva metsästä (1998)

The film is both a folkloric film and a social documentary about the Selkupi people who live in Siberia and make their living from hunting and fishing. The film follows the life of Yuri Mikhailovich Kalin's family, which consists of fishing, trapping fur a ...

Anna (1997)

Anna tells the story of a woman of the Nganasan, a severely endangered people of the Taymyr Peninsula. ...

Lost Paradise (1994)

Ethnographic documentary. ...

In Reindeer Shape Across the Sky... (1993)

This Finnish documentary film directed, written, produced and shot by Markku Lehmuskallio is the first part of a documentary trilogy about the Nenets people. It's a folkloric documentary describing the traditional nomadic life of the Nenets on the Yamal Pe ...

In the company of Anastasia & Markku, filmmakers from the Far North (2023)

Markku Lehmuskallio, Finnish, is a woodsman turned filmmaker. Anastasia Lapsui, born under a Nenètse tepee and the granddaughter of a shaman, became a radio journalist in the Nenètse language and has never stopped singing the stories of the tundra. They ...

In Reindeer Shape Across the Sky... (1993)

This Finnish documentary film directed, written, produced and shot by Markku Lehmuskallio is the first part of a documentary trilogy about the Nenets people. It's a folkloric documentary describing the traditional nomadic life of the Nenets on the Yamal Pe ...