Pekka Lehto

Pekka Lehto has directed and produced over 20 documentaries and feature films that have been internationally broadcast, theatrically distributed and won many prizes. Ranging from dynamic dramas, political and human rights stories through to powerful portraits of unique personalities. His recent credits include: 2010 Epäilyksen Varjossa (In the Shadow of Doubt) which follows the story of diplomat Alpo Rusi who was accused of espionage, followed by Komissaari (The Commissioner 2012) a sort of road movie documentary trying to keep up with Olli Rehn during t he European financial crises. In 2013 he finished fiction film The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand, which deals with the tumultuous life of Finnish outsider artist Kalervo Palsa.