At home with Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio
goEast Film Festival 2025: 24 April – 22 May
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1h 11m
At this year’s goEast Film Festival, the annual Homage retrospective strand is dedicated to the life and work of Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio, whose films about the indigenous nations of Arctic Russia and Finland provide a beautiful and vital insight into Native cultures in the Soviet and post-Soviet world. As part of our partnership with the festival, Klassiki subscribers can watch this exclusive, extended video interview conducted with Lapsui and Lehmuskallio in their Helsinki home by Olaf Müller.
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