BOY FROM HEAVEN

Tarik Saleh started as one of the top graffiti artists in Stockholm in the 80s. He directed and wrote the screenplay for The Nile Hilton Incident, which 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 400,000 tickets sold in France. He directed the action thriller The Contractor (2022), starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, and Kiefer Sutherland, several episodes of the futuristic HBO series Westworld (2018), the Showtime series Ray Donovan, and the thriller Tommy (2014), featuring Ola Rapace, Moa Gammel, and singer-songwriter Lykke Li, for whom he also directed the music video “I Follow Rivers” (more that 80 million views on YouTube). His film debut Metropia (2009), a dystopic animation, premiered at the Venice Film Festival as the opening film for Critics’ Week.