SAMPPA BATAL

Samppa Batal is referred to as Finland’s leading independent filmmaker. In addition to being an internationally awarded writer-director, he's an highly versatile artist in different roles on both sides of the camera.

As a filmmaker Batal believes in cinema’s power to reinforce empathy and understanding between us. Offering the viewer a fair chance for self-reflection is a common theme lingering over his films.

His guilty pleasure movie is
Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones.

FILM DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER & PRODUCER