Finnish director Samppa Batal talks romantic dramedy ‘Apple Thieves’ premiering at Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy.

In 2020, Batal continues to document her life and adventures as a young Sudanese-American woman. For her latest project, the self-proclaimed “queen of sweatpants” has teamed up with ASOS on an ...

But she would soon overcome her isolation, in imaginative, empowering, 21st-century ways. Batal, who is 22, has had quite a career on YouTube, first blogging about styling her natural hair and now ...

Batal’s new YouTube videos are slower, more meditative. Snippets of her life in Dubai roll on the screen to gentle Arabic instrumentals or audio recordings of Batal talking. Sometimes she reads ...