Samsha Masson is a filmmaker and director based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Born in Switzerland in 2002, she moved to Los Angeles in 2018 to complete her secondary education and received her International Baccalaureate diploma in 2021. She attended a two-month directing workshop at the New York Film Academy in Florence the same year and started her undergraduate studies in 2022. She earned a joint BFA from Emerson College in Boston and Paris College of Art in Paris in August 2025, graduating summa cum laude.
Her work, primarily rooted in fiction filmmaking, explores memory, childhood, time, and metaphysical and spiritual realms.
Working with nonlinear narrative structures, she experiments with the formal qualities of film to explore the human condition.