His recent feature films Shun Li and the Poet (Io sono Li, 2011) and Early Snow (La prima neve, 2013) have received international critical acclaim and have won numerous prizes. In recent years he has made documentaries on the passage of migrants from Africa to Europe through the Mediterranean, in the face of European detention and repatriation practices. Like a Man on Earth (which he codirected with Dagmawi Yimer), South of Lampedusa and Closed Sea (both of which he codirected with Stefano Liberti) belong to this period.