Philomène Grandin is awarded the City of Stockholm’s Culture Scholarship 2022 for her debut Don’t Forget Me.

The motivation reads as follows: “In her debut, Philomène Grandin portrays the relationship between a child and a beloved father beyond upbringing, fame and illness. It revolves around a proud cultural figure in Stockholm that has meant so much for so many. A dignified story about struggle and aging where that which unfolds cannot be stopped, but where love and friendship prevails.”

Corner Office, the film adaptation of Jonas Karlsson’s acclaimed novel The Room, is to premiere at Tribeca Festival June 9. The story is about a compulsively meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room. The story is a sharp depiction of everyday life laced with bizarre encounters and misunderstandings.

Corner Office is directed by Joachim Back and starring Jon Hamm.

Spotify and the climate tech company Planethon is letting research and art meet in a new audio drama project called Twentyseventytwo. Three prominent Swedish writers and film directors have written audio dramas that take place 50 years in the future and is based on research data and future scenarios from Planethon. Henrik Björn’s story Ragna, told by Gizem Kling Erdogan, is now available for listening on Spotify.

In Ragna we meet Liv who lives in the great primeval forest with her grandfather who teaches her everything he knows about the world around them. But one day he takes her on a journey that will completely turn her world upside down. When everything is revealed, she must start making new difficult choices about the future. 

Two audio dramas are also written by Tuva Novotny (The Wild City with Edvin Ryding) and Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (Do not cry over your bees with Maxida Märak).

The project is released in connection with the Stockholm +50 environmental conference to help raise awareness of the climate crisis.

Detective Agency No. 2 are on vacation. Tiril, Oliver and Ocho will spend the week at uncle Rasmus’ cabin in Sugarbay, but their holiday is soon interrupted. A thief is roaming the camping ground right by the cabin. Pool toys, camping chairs, diving equipment and decorations are among the things that have gone missing. Suspicion quickly falls upon the man known as the Camping King, as he’s got the largest camping van on site. Now he’s disappeared and Detective Agency No. 2 are right on his heels.

The Search for the Camping King is the ninth activity book in the Detective Agency No. 2 series. Along the way we get to take part in the solving of the mystery, just like in the other thrilling activity books from the Detective Agency No. 2 universe.

Tarik Saleh’s Boy from Heaven, the political thriller set in Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque about the fisherman boy Adam (Tawfeek Barhom) who is thrown into a brutal power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite, was awarded Best Screenplay by the jury at the 75th Cannes International Film Festival, as well as the prestigeous Prix François Chalais Award for his film’s “dedication to the values of life affirmation and of journalism”.