Sara Creta is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker with extensive experience investigating human rights abuses. She has reported on forced migration, crises, and societies in transition, and directed award-winning investigative documentaries recognized by the Rory Peck Awards, Prix Europa, the European Press Prize, and the Amnesty Media Award.

Her films have been exhibited and broadcast internationally, with works appearing on ARTE, BBC, Channel 4, ZDF, and The New York Times. They have been recognized at numerous festivals across Europe and beyond—not only for their investigative depth, but for their sensitivity to form and narrative texture.

In Libya: No Escape from Hell (ARTE), she delved into the violent logic of detention and disappearance, constructing a visual map from testimonies, blurred traces, and institutional complicity. The film, shot entirely in Libya, was a finalist for the Albert Londres Prize and critically examines Europe’s entanglement with systems of abuse under the guise of border control.

In 2024, she completed The Battle for the Nile (ARTE), a filmic journey along contested waters in Ethiopia and Egypt. Here, she sought not only to trace geopolitical tensions, but to listen—to voices along the river’s edge, to landscapes wounded by conflict, to mythologies and memories shaped by water.

Other recent works include Death on the Border (BBC Africa Eye), a forensic visual investigation into the fatal border policies at the Morocco-Spain crossing; and her in-depth reporting on Sudan’s conflict for ARTE, including Women in War (2025) and Women on the Frontline (2019), exemplifies her ability to combine journalistic rigor, cinematic sensibility, and compelling narrative structure, creating work that is both accessible and in-depth.