Tarik Saleh still has hope for his series of films that have earned the ire of the Egyptian political establishment.
"My dream is to have a screening of this trilogy in a freer Egypt, 10 to 15 years from now," he said.
In 2010, the Egyptian-Swedish filmmaker was widely hailed as one of the most exciting emerging voices in Scandinavian cinema.
His 2009 animated dystopian fable Metropia premiered at the Venice Film Festival to critical and commercial acclaim.
Two years later, he directed I Follow Rivers for singer Lykke Li, an iconic music video that has since amassed nearly 100 million views on YouTube.
