Born in the Republic of Djibouti, between Ethiopia and Somalia, Kassim Saleh is an Afro-Italian filmmaker, writer and actor.The 2017 short film Idris, premiered at the 2017 Venice International Film Festival in the special section MigrArti, written with Heidrun Schleef. In 2020 he directed Il vento sotto i piedi and the documentary Mirella and in 2022 he directed Guerra tra poveri, that premiered at Festa del Cinema di Roma.