Tarik Saleh
Tarik Saleh has a background as one of the most influential graffiti artists in Europe in the 1980s. His dramatic feature film debut came with METROPIA (2009), a dystopian animation featuring Stellan and Alexander Skarsgård, Juliette Lewis, Vincent Gallo, and Udo Kier. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival as the opening film of Critics’ Week.
THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2017, received a Guldbagge Award for Best Film in 2018, was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the César Awards, and became a box office hit with more than 400,000 tickets sold in France.
Tarik Saleh won the Prix du scénario for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022 for CAIRO CONSPIRACY (also known as BOY FROM HEAVEN), Sweden’s official Oscar entry for Best International Feature in 2023. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the César Awards and had over 500,000 admissions in French cinemas.