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Once upon a time, there was the Swedish queen of crime Camilla Läckberg, steadily delivering international best-selling adult/children’s books, cook books and song lyrics.

Some of her books have turned into series –“The Fjällbacka Murders” – or soon will be – “The Golden Age,’ optioned by Legendary Entertainment.

One day she met Swedish star actor Alexander Karim while shooting the Swedish show “Stars in the Castle” (“Stjärnorna på slotet”).

“We started talking TV, movies, creative ideas and immediately hit it off!” Läckberg tells Variety, in a zoom interview ahead of Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market. There, her executive produced thriller “The Dog,” starring Alexander Karim and helmed by his brother Baker Karim (“Malcolm”), is having its market world premiere.

The Karim brothers and Läckberg are, moreover, now ‘partners in crime’ in Bad Flamingo Studios (Bfs), a Stockholm-based film and TV production outfit founded to “break the film industry’s norms and barriers.

Line-up for the 25th edition of the market includes 16 completed features, 15 Wip, 17 films in development.

Films by Sweat director Magnus von Horn and Margrete: Queen of the North filmmaker Charlotte Sieling will be presented at the 25th Nordic Film Market (January 31-February 2), the film marketplace of Goteborg Film Festival.

The projects are among the 15 Nordic films in post-production being showcased in the Works in Progress strand.

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Swedish director von Horn attends with The Girl With The Needle, a horror story set in 1910s Denmark, starring Trine Dyrholm and produced by Creative Alliance’s Malene Blenkov.

Seems like every other week we have news on Danny Glover who has to be one of the hardest working actors around. This time he’s in Dear Alice, a dramatic Swedish film by Othman Karim. The film has been described as an “intersection of emotions” as the main characters must deal with anger, kindness, violence, despair, prejudice and injustice.

This is the second feature film for the Uganda born Swedish filmmaker. His first, About Sara, won the Golden St. George Prize for Best Film at the 2006 Moscow International Film Festival.

Although Othman was educated in the United States, he’s primarily produced and directed television programs in Sweden. In fact, he sometimes produces for his younger brother Baker Karim, also a Swedish television director and producer. The brothers also have a younger sibling, Alexander Karim, who acts and writes.

Synopsis for Dear Alice:

Very different lives become inter-weaved during...

SYDNEY -- Swedish director Baker Karim's short film Malcolm on Sunday won best film at the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, one of the world's largest international competitive events for short films. Winners of the festival's major categories also are eligible for consideration by the Academy Of Motion Picture Sciences for Oscar nominations. Festival director Bronwyn Kidd said this year's event, held on Australia's most famous beach, Bondi, notched up record attendance to view the 94 films selected to screen in competition.