Born in Eritrea, after attending university in Italy he moved to New York, graduating from New York University Film School in 1985. In 1993 he produced and directed Boatman, filmed in India, a film that went to festivals such as Sundance, Locarno and Toronto. After the short film Afterwords, released in Venice, he shot the documentary Below Sea Level in 2008 in California, with which he won the Best Documentary Award in the Orizzonti section in Venice, as well as two awards in Cinéma du Réel and Prague, and was nominated for the European Film Awards. In 2010 he shot El Sicario, winner of the Fipresci Award in Venice, a festival to which he returned to win the Golden Lion for Sacro Gra, also a Silver Giraldillo in Seville, among other awards. Fuocoammare (2016) earned him the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, a European Film Award and an Oscar nomination. Notturno won three awards at the Venice Film Festival.
Festival de Cine de Sevilla
