Nikita Merlini was born in 1992 in Locarno, in the canton of Ticino, in Switzerland. In 2015, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in English literature and Film’s Aesthetics at University of Zurich. Between 2017 and 2020, he studied filmmaking at ECAL and directed his diploma film Little Swallow. His projects are mainly devoted to themes related to adolescence as well as to its multiple questions (identity, future). Moreover, through his various projects, he regularly tries to make an observation of the various social and cultural issues of his country.