Markku Lehmuskallio Movies

Based on a true story about the so called 1932 Horse Rebellion in Nivala, Finland. The decision to put down a sick horse owned by a poor farmer rises...

The film follows researchers working at a Canadian research station as they become acquainted with Inuit culture.

With a keen sense of visual beauty, director Markku Lehmuskallio has created a thought-provoking, aesthetic film about a married couple and an old...

Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of...

When two former top orienteers end up in a snowstorm in Lapland wilderness, they face an impossible orienteering task: how to reach your destination...

A hunter brings a feathered bird as an offering to the goddess of his ancestors. Tapiola is a film-poem in defense of nature and humanity. It is also...

A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

In the 1860’s Alaska and Finland are simultaneously parts of the Russian Empire. A Finnish mining engineer Simon buys a Tlingit girl named...

Liisa, a young nurse returns to a remote island where she has spent the summer leaves in her youth. She soon gets to know some of the regular...

Deaf artist Joel lives with his parents on a small farm, where he and his paintings are not appreciated.

In 17th-century Pohjola, young Antti Puuhaara is looking for himself, because he has grown up with no knowledge of his childhood. Two actors, the...

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...

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...

The history of Finland through traces of the past.

Ethnographic documentary.

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

Nedarma (Travelling) is one of several documentary features co-directed by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio that portray the daily lives of...

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...

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...