Tarik Saleh

Tarik Saleh (Arabic: طارق صالح; born 28 January 1972; Stockholm) is a Swedish film director, animator, screenwriter, producer, publisher, journalist. He was born in Högalids församling, Stockholm to a Swedish mother and an Egyptian father. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of Sweden's most prominent graffiti artists, including co-creating Fascinate. He has also worked as a TV host for Sveriges Television and is one of the founders of production company Atmo. His work often contains techniques such as montages, cut-out graphics and faces with manipulated lip synching. At the 53rd Guldbagge Awards, his film The Nile Hilton Incident won five awards, including Best Film. His film Boy from Heaven was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Works

The Land of the Cyclops

Release Date2021-09-09

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

På spåret

På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.

Release Date1987-09-05

Charactersd Self - Contestant

Episode Count3

Vote Count14

Being Bo Widerberg

The documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and film critic, to his successes as a director in Stockholm and international adventures in Cannes and New York. The film also explores the personal costs of his artistic vision and how his pursuit of life and authenticity affected both himself and those around him.

Release Date2025-07-02

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Il était une fois... « La Conspiration du Caire »

Release Date2024-11-24

Charactersd Self

Vote Count4

Westworld

A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

Release Date2016-10-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count6258

Ray Donovan

Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.

Release Date2013-06-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count844

The Contractor

After being involuntarily discharged from the U.S. Special Forces, James Harper decides to support his family by joining a private contracting organization alongside his best friend and under the command of a fellow veteran. Overseas on a covert mission, Harper must evade those trying to kill him while making his way back home.

Release Date2022-03-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1073

Eagles of the Republic

George Fahmy, Egypt's most adored actor, is pressured to star in a film commissioned by the highest authorities. He reluctantly accepts and finds himself thrown into the inner circle of power. Like moth drawn to flame, he begins an affair with the mysterious wife of the general overseeing the project.

Release Date2025-09-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count60

Cairo Conspiracy

A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite.

Release Date2022-10-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count290

Metropia

In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper into a bizarre conspiracy of control - mind and body.

Release Date2009-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count195

Tony & Sylvio

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Nile Hilton Incident

Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.

Release Date2017-06-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count395

Gitmo

Looks at the link between Guantanomo Bay and the torture methods used in Iraq. How US forces handle the task of retrieving information from the detainees. Ex detainee Mehdi from Sweden breaks his vow of silence.

Release Date2005-11-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Seat 26D

Seat 26D explores the inexpressible. With scale models built of paper, digital animation and live action, it reconstructs a passenger’s memory of a plane crash. Early morning, December 27th 1991. Flight 751 is taking off from Stockholm-Arlanda. 13-year old Sandro is looking forward to spending his Christmas holiday in Japan. At 1,000 meters altitude violent explosions are heard from both sides of the plane. The engines go quiet and they are silently gliding through the air. The pilots are forced to make an emergency landing and the plane crashes on a snow-capped field near the small village of Gottröra. The flight lasted 4 minutes, but the memory lasts a lifetime. Sandro narrates the story about the day he was about to die.

Release Date2014-01-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Alba

In a dystopian and perhaps not too distant future, a mother writes a letter to her daughter Alba. How can Alba ever forgive her for having a world of inheritance beyond saving?

Release Date2020-05-10

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Cairo trilogy

This modern trio of films features actor Fares Fares. The films operate as a searing critique of Egyptian political, religious, and social institutions. The Nile Hilton Incident (2017): A neo-noir thriller set in Cairo just before the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Cairo Conspiracy / Boy from Heaven (2022): An intense political drama set inside Cairo's Al-Azhar University. Eagles of the Republic (2025): Concludes the trilogy by focusing on an Egyptian actor pressured to star in government propaganda.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Om du var jag

Release Date2005-05-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara

The two young Swedish journalist's Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh have worked one year with Sacrificio, a film about the events surrounding the death of Che Guevara. They have traveled the world around and met among others the man who shot Che Guevara and the former CIA agent who walks around with Che's last tobacco in his pistol butt. In their attempts to find out what really happened they discover that the man who is accused of having betrayed Che Guevara as a matter of fact lives in Malmö, in the south of Sweden.

Release Date2001-01-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Tommy

After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.

Release Date2014-03-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count21

Charlie Johnson in the Flames

A political thriller about an American journalist who travels to Africa to hunt down a murderous Colonel and bring him to justice.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Världens modernaste land

Release Date2006-12-13

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

En klass för sig

In a fictional suburb of Stockholm 20 students are doing their best to survive a dilapidated school and their callous classmates.

Release Date2000-05-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Swoon

John and Ninni – both heirs to their own individual amusement parks – fall in love amidst the whirling world they both inhabit. A forbidden love and a war between their two families puts their love and loyalty to the test.

Release Date2019-02-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count23

Lykke Li: Sadness is a Blessing

Release Date2011-05-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Lykke Li - Live on the Moon

Lykke Li and her band fly to the moon to perform ballads from her album Wounded Rhymes.

Release Date2011-03-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Blodgruppen

In 1999, some of Sweden's most read and award-winning crime novelists formed a secret club called the Blood Group. At the meetings, everything from murder methods and intrigue is discussed.

Release Date2006-05-10

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Elbyl

Release Date1998-05-04

Vote Count1