Juhani Lihtonen

The Arctic Report series episode North, North (1972) tells the story of the annual migration of the nomadic Sámi people of Norway. The Lapinkylä juta, with their families and reindeer, travel 350 kilometers from the Norwegian-Finnish border to the shores of the Arctic Ocean.

With a keen sense of visual beauty, director Markku Lehmuskallio has created a thought-provoking, aesthetic film about a married couple and an old man living in a remote part of Finland. The young husband goes out hunting but only to support himself and his wife, not to kill off hordes of animals. He sets traps, and that gets him in trouble with the police who proceed to ticket him for using the devices. The forest cycles themselves are intimated when an old tree is shown falling to earth -- perhaps a reflection on the old man's passing years. In contrast to these few people living off the land and basically keeping the ecological balance intact, a highway construction crew is shown at work felling trees. Soon the antagonism grows between encroaching civilization and the quiet life of the young couple and elderly man.

About a boy who wants to bring a Christmas tree into his house for the first time.

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