Anastasia Lapsui (born 1944) is a Soviet-born Nenets film director, screenwriter, and radio journalist who has lived in Finland since 1993. Lapsui, together with Markku Lehmuskallio, directed " Seven Songs from the Tundra," the first

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in the Nenets language. Lapsui has won numerous honors, including the

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for Best Film, and the Grand Prize at the

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Biography

Anastasia Lapsui was born to a nomadic family in Nida,

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO; russian: Яма́ло-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг (ЯНАО), ; yrk, Ямалы-Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, ) or Yamalia (russian: Ямалия) is a fed ...

, northwest of

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, in 1944. She graduated from

Ural State University The Ural State University (russian: Урáльский госудáрственный университéт и́мени А.М. Гóрького, , often shortened to USU, УрГУ) is a public university located in the city of Yekaterinburg, Sv ...

in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Early in her career, she was a radio reporter in the city of

Salekhard Salekhard (russian: Салеха́рд; Khanty: , ''Pułñawat''; yrk, Саляʼ харад, ''Saljaꜧ harad'') is a town in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, serving as the okrug's administrative centre. It crosses the Arctic Circle, th ...

, and also wrote screenplays. Together with her spouse, Markku Lehmuskallio, they have directed more than 10 films about the Nenets, the

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, and other indigenous peoples from around the world. Of the movie ''Matkalla'' (On the Way), completed in 2007, Lapsui says:— "This movie has a special meaning to me. In it, I present my own view of the Nenets religion and the afterlife."Anneli Ahonen, ''Oman kansansa tiennäyttäjä''. Helsingin Sanomat, 25.7.2007, p. C6.

Awards

* 2000, Best Film (Nordic), Amanda Award * 2000, Grand Prize,

* 2001, Best Film,

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* 2005, Best International Feature, Birds Eye View Award * 2009, Suomi-palkinto (Finland Award) * 2014, Taiteilijaeläke (Artist pension)

Filmography

* 1993, ''Poron hahmossa pitkin taivaankaarta'' (editing, music, narrator, recording) * 1994, ''Kadotettu paratiisi'' (planning, Nenets / Finnish translations, editing, recording) * 1995, ''Jäähyväisten kronikka'' (editing) * 1997, ''Anna'' (directing, manuscript) * 1998, ''The Sacrifice: A Film About a Forest'' (directing, planning, recording, editing) * 1999, '' Seven Songs from the Tundra'' (directing, costume, cut, staging, manuscript) * 2001, ''Shepherd'' (directing, manuscript) * 2002, ''Mothers of Life'' (directing, editing, voice, songs) * 2003, '' A Bride of the Seventh Heaven'' (directing, costume, manuscript) * 2004, ''Fata Morgana'' (directing, editing, recording, manuscript) * 2006, ''The Sami'' (guidance, editing) * 2007, ''Matkalla'' (directing, screenplay, actor) * 2008, ''Travelling'' * 2009, ''Earth Evocation'' * 2010, '' Pudana Last of the Line'' * 2012, ''11 Images of a Human'' * 2015, ''Tsamo * 2017, ''Pyhä'' (credited as Anastasia Lapsuy)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lapsui, Anastasia 1944 births Living people Russian film directors Women radio journalists 21st-century Russian women writers People from Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Nenets people Russian expatriates in Finland 21st-century Russian screenwriters

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