Tarik Saleh

Director and scriptwriter Tarik Saleh (born 1972) started as one of the top graffiti artists in Stockholm in the 80’s. He directed and wrote the screenplay for THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT that won ‘The Grand Jury Prize’ at Sundance 2017, received a Guldbagge Award for ‘Best film’ in 2018, was nominated as ‘Best Foreign Film’ at the César Awards and was a box office hit with more than 400 thousand tickets sold in France. He also directed the Hollywood film THE CONTRACTOR (2022), several episodes of the futuristic HBO-series WESTWORLD (2018) and TOMMY (2014) with Ola Rapace, Moa Gammel and singer-songwriter Lykke Li for whom he also directed the music video I FOLLOW RIVERS that has more than 80 million views on YouTube. His film debut came with METROPIA (2009), a dystopic animation with Stellan Skarsgård, Juliette Lewis, Vincent Gallo and Udo Kier. The film premiered at Venice Film Festival as opening film for the Critics’ Week. Tarik Saleh also directed the documentaries GITMO: THE NEW RULES OF WAR (2005) and SACRIFICIO: WHO BETRAYED CHE GUEVARA (2001) together with Erik Gandini.

Tarik Saleh’s latest film BOY FROM HEAVEN premiered at the 2022 Cannes main competition and was awarded with Best script. Theatrical release in Sweden November 18, 2022.

Tarik Saleh is one of the founders of Atmo.

Films directed by Tarik Saleh