THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT

Cairo 2011, just weeks before the revolution. Police Detective Noredin, working in the in-famous Kasr el-Nil Police Station, is handed the case of a murdered singer. He soon realizes that the investigation concerns the very power elite, close to the President’s inner circle.

Tarik Saleh (b. 1972, Stockholm) is a screenwriter, director, and producer. At the end of the 1980s he entered the history of Swedish culture as a top graffiti artist. In 2001 he co-directed the provocative documentary Sacrificio - Who Betrayed Che Guevara? In 2009 he finished the animated feature Metropia, which premiere opened the Settimana della critica at Venice and then toured over 65 festivals. His 2011 video for the Lykke Li song “I Follow Rivers” has received over 63 million views on YouTube. He is a cofounder of Atmo productions.

Fans of international crime fiction will recognize in the movie’s brooding, chain-smoking protagonist the kind of compromised but searching anti-hero whose actions afford a glimpse into how other societies operate, until we realize the contours of perfidy and injustice are, sadly, familiar everywhere. 

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times