
The Nile Hilton Incident
- 2017
- Crime
- Drama
- Thriller
Director, screenwriter and producer Tarik Saleh (b. 1972) got his start in the mid 1980s as one of Sweden’s most acclaimed graffiti artists. His mural Fascinate from 1989 is the first graffiti mural to be protected by the Swedish state as a cultural heritage, and is one of the world’s oldest existing graffiti paintings. Saleh then went on to work as art director and publisher. In 2001, he made his directorial debut with Sacrificio – Who betrayed Che Guevara? together with Erik Gandini. Saleh again teamed up with Gandini for Gitmo (2005), a documentary about the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Both documentaries won several awards and sparked international debate. Saleh moved on to create the critically acclaimed Metropia (2009), a dystopian computer animated drama that landed him several prestigious awards and nominations, among them the Future Film Festival Digital Award at the Venice Film Festival.
The year 2017 saw the premiere of his latest feature film, The Nile Hilton Incident, which became a great success and was highly praised internationally, winning numerous awards including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and ‘Best Film’ at the Guldbagge Awards.
Saleh runs, together with co-founders Kristina Åberg and Lars Rodvaldr, one of Sweden’s most innovative production companies: Atmo.
Saleh recently directed an episode for HBO’s Westworld and an episode for Showtime’s Ray Donovan. He is currently directing Violence of Action, Thunder Road Film’s new action thriller starring Chris Pine.
César Awards Nominee (Best Foreign Film) France – The Nile Hilton Incident | 2018 |
Guldbagge Awards Nominee (Best Direction) Sweden – The Nile Hilton Incident | 2018 |
Guldbagge Award (Best Film) Sweden – The Nile Hilton Incident | 2018 |
Valladolid International Film Festival (Best Film) Spain – The Nile Hilton Incident | 2017 |
Art Film Festival Nominee (Best Film) Slovakia – The Nile Hilton Incident | 2017 |
Sundance Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize) US – The Nile Hilton Incident | 2017 |
Valladolid International Film Festival (Best Screenplay) Spain – The Nile Hilton Incident | 2017 |
Valladolid International Film Festival (Best Director) Spain – The Nile Hilton Incident | 2017 |
Beaune International Thriller Film Festival (Le Grand Prix) France – The Nile Hilton Incident | 2017 |
Annecy International Animated Film Festival Nominee (Best Feature) France – Metropia | 2010 |
Nordic Council's Film Prize Nominee – Metropia | 2010 |
Warsaw International Film Festival Nominee (Grand Prix) Poland – Metropia | 2009 |
Catalonian International Film Festival Nominee (Best Film) – Metropia | 2009 |
Stockholm Film Festival Nominee (Bronze Horse) Sweden – Metropia | 2009 |
São Paulo International Film Festival Nominee (Best Feature Film) Brazil – Metropia | 2009 |
Venice Film Festival (Future Film Festival Digital Award) Italy – Metropia | 2009 |
Miami Film Festival (Special Mention) US – Gitmo | 2006 |
Seattle International Film Festival (Best Documentary Award) US – Gitmo | 2006 |
Prague One World Film Festival (Czech Radio Award - Special Citation) Czech Republic – Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara | 2002 |
Havana Film Festival (Coral) Cuba – Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara | 2001 |
Tarik Saleh is the director of Thunder Road Films’ new action thriller, Violence of Action. The film sees Chris Pine in the lead role as James Harper who, after being involuntarily discharged from the Green Berets, joins a paramilitary organization in order to support his family in the only way he knows how. Harper travels to Berlin with his elite team on a black ops mission to investigate a mysterious threat. Barely into his first assignment, he finds himself alone and hunted across Europe, where he must fight to stay alive long enough to return home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.
Chris Pine is joined by actors Ben Foster (Hell or High Water) and Gillian Jacobs (Community), and the script is written by J.P. Davis. The film has begun principal photography in the US, Germany and Romania.
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Director, screenwriter and producer Tarik Saleh’s stylish films often explore controversial subjects and show no hesitation in portraying the polarities and conflicts in society. 2017 saw the premiere of his latest feature film, The Nile Hilton Incident, which became a great success and was highly praised internationally, winning numerous awards including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and ‘Best Film’ at the Guldbagge Awards.
Most recently, Saleh directed an episode for HBO’s Westworld and an episode for Showtime’s Ray Donovan. Saleh is currently attached to helm The Red Circle, a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic 1970 cat-and-mouse thriller. Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises) has written the script.