Movies: Markku Lehmuskallio

A film about herder Niila and Sami environment in the time of change and plight. First partly Saami language fiction film in Finland....

The second half of this two-part work of anthropological research, during which he met Anastasia Lapsui in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. Seven years in the making, this film became the turning point in Lehmuskallio’s artistic path. “I started f...

A look into the recent history of the Chukchi people....

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

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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 ...

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

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 dedicati...

Markku Lehmuskallio has devoted a large part of his documentary work to the indigenous people of the Arctic Circle. In this latest film, co-directed with his son Johannes Lehmuskallio, he composes a fascinating poetic ethnography inspired by the sing...

An educational piece produced for the Forest Industry Employers’ Union shows the working conditions and future prospects of the foresters and machine drivers....

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Ethnographic documentary....

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 Ya...

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 a...