After his studies at Biskops Arnö and having completed a master's degree in film science at Stockholm University, he started working as a documentary filmmaker.

In 2000, Erik Gandini founded the Stockholm-based film production company ATMO, together with Tarik Saleh, Lars Rodvald and Kristina Åberg.

Sacrificio confronts Busto's version of the events with the surviving protagonists of Che Guevara's death and raises questions about how history has been written.

Sacrificio stars several of the main characters surrounding the capture and killing of the Argentinian revolutionary leader, including former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, former Bolivian General Gary Prado and Che Guevara's executioner Mario Teran.

When released in 2001, Sacrificio sparked an international debate concerning Che's death and shed new light on the role played by French intellectual Régis Debray.

Surplus premiered in competition at the largest documentary film festival IDFA in Amsterdam[4] in 2003 where it won the prestigious Silver Wolf Award.

[citation needed] Gitmo – The New Rules of War is a documentary about the Guantanamo Bay detention camp by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh.

It won a Jury award as best documentary at the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival,[7] In July 2012, after a suicide bomb attack that left seven people dead in the Bulgarian city of Burgas on a bus carrying Israeli tourists, Gitmo's main character and former Guantanamo detainee Mehdi Ghezali was named in Bulgarian and Israeli media as the main suspect.

[15] The title of the movie is derived from the book Is the Swede a Human Being?, written by the Swedish historians Henrik Berggren och Lars Trägårdh.

The movie premiered internationally in competition at CPH DO and IDFA in the Master section, was nominated for Best Documentary at the Stockholm Film Festival in 2015 and was released theatrically in Italy, Spain, Poland, Norway and The Netherlands.

The film is a portrait of senior Danish surgeon Erik Erichsen who loses his passion for his job despite being the most meaningful profession in the world.

With no tools nor resources he discovers purpose in a remote hospital in the village of Aira, where stoicism and acceptance of faith among local population reminds him of the fallibility of the west.