Director and writer Andreas Öhman has devoted most of his life to the arts, and to refining his style and expression in filmmaking. He is known for making endearing feel-good films, always striving to achieve new visual perspectives, and for his warmhearted narration that goes into everything he does.

Öhman found his passion for film early in life. He grew up in northern Sweden where the vast open spaces and forests allowed his imagination to wander freely. In 2010 he debuted with his first feature film Simple Simon/I rymden finns inga känslor, starring Bill Skarsgård, which became an immediate success with viewers and critics alike. Simple Simon, written and directed by Öhman, was selected as Sweden’s nomination for the Academy Awards, and was among else nominated at the Guldbagge Awards for ‘Best Film’,  ‘Best Screenplay’ and ‘Best Actor’.

The success from Simple Simon paved the way for Öhman’s career in Film and TV, and the following years he made the feature films Bitch Hug/Bitchkram (2012), Remake (2014), Eternal Summer/Odödliga (2015) and directed the crime thriller series 100 Code. 2020 saw the premiere of Öhman’s first TV project as a creator, the nerve-wracking thriller series The End of Summer/Den sista sommaren, for which he was writer and director.

Furthermore, Öhman is director of the second season of the TV4 and C More hit series Bäckström.

Öhmans next anticipated feature film One Day All of This Will Be Yours/En dag kommer allt det här bli ditt, starring Karin Franz Körlof, Peter Haber och Suzanne Reuter, is set to premiere in November 2022.

Netflix has unveiled a teaser trailer for their upcoming crime series Clark, which tells the story of the Swedish criminal who gave rise to the idea of The Stockholm Syndrome during a failed bank robbery in Stockholm. Based on the truth and lies of Clark Olofsson’s autobiography, the series will feature Clark’s early years until present day. The notorious gangster started his criminal career in the 1960s and became one of the most controversial personalities in contemporary Swedish history.

Clark will be directed by Jonas Åkerlund and starring Bill Skarsgård as Clark Olofsson. Fredrik Agetoft, Peter Arrhenius and Jonas Åkerlund are the series’ writers.

The premiere date is yet to be announced.

Having celebrated its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, The Dark Heart will now also premiere in Sweden on Wednesday, February 9 on Channel 5 and discovery+.

The five-part drama thriller series stars Aliette Opheim and Gustav Lindh, and is created by screenwriter Oskar Söderlund and director Gustav Möller.

Magic has been around since the beginning of time, but nowadays we don’t have to fight demons and dragons and are faced with different kinds of challenges. Here is a book full of spells and incantations for everyday matters – for our times. So that you can get help with things such as making disgusting food taste of sweets, improve your wifi, get a lie in and making someone aware of that you like them. An imaginative book with funny and ingenious chants that also allows for reflection on the problems one may have in life.

But…perhaps this book is also filled to the brim with magical clues and secret codes – that together forms the key to access an epic adventure? Who reads will see.

For his new groundbreaking title, Magic Spells & Incantations for Everyday Matters, Sundin has poured his innovativeness, humour and a heartfelt message into the cauldron and brewed up a thrilling concoction for  children aged 6+. It has seen friends and families all over the country join together in the race to solve its captivating escape room-like mystery.

Ahead of its UK publication later this month, Björn Natthiko Lindeblad’s I May Be Wrong has been selected by British magazine The Bookseller’s editor Caroline Sanderson as an Editor’s Choice for the month of February. Sanderson describes the book as “[A] humble memoir imbued with all the wisdom [Natthiko Lindeblad] gained as a monk.”

A new case for Detective Agency No. 2 drops out the clear blue sky – or at least from a third floor window. A thief has snuck in to an office building and has stolen a rare Japanese bookend from a room with an open window. No one knows who he is, where he has come from or where he’s gone. There is little doubt that this is a given mission for Detective Agency No. 2.

In Operation Ninja, the twenty-first installment in the Detective Agency No. 2 series, Tiril, Oliver and Ocho are faced with sneaky dragons, phantom images, electrical voltage and – of course: ninjas.

Author Suad Ali (b.1990) is also a political scientist and has worked with migration issues for United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Swedish Migration Agency. In 2018, Ali was featured on Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 List for Law & Policy.

Your Hands Were Full of Life is her debut.

Tom Hanks and director Marc Forster are set to begin shooting A Man Called Otto, the movie adapted from Fredrik Backman’s #1 New York Times Bestseller A Man Called Ove and the film of the same name. Principal photography will commence in mid-February on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The titular character has been renamed to reflect the shift to an American setting and joining Tom Hanks are actors Mariana Treviño (Overboard), Rachel Keller (Legion) and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (6 Underground).

The nominees for the Swedish 2021 Storytel Awards have been announced. The Storytel Awards have been bestowed since 2007 in Sweden to highlight the best audio books of the year. The awards are granted within six categories: Suspense, Fiction, Non-fiction, Feelgood, YA, and Children’s books.

Among the nominees for suspense are Kristina Ohlsson’s Icebreaker, Hjorth & Rosenfeldt’s As You Sow, Jens Lapidus’ The No-Go Zone, Anders de la Motte & Måns Nilsson’s A House to Die For, Liza Marklund’s The Polar Circle, and Anders Roslund’s Trust Me.

The nominees within the fiction category includes Fredrik Backman’s The Winners and Jonas Gardell’s A Happier Year, and Simona Ahrnstedt’s The Queen of the Night is featured on the Feelgood list.

Meanwhile, Anders Hansen’s Brain Blues and Måns Mosesson’s Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii features on the Non-fiction list, and David Sundin’s audiobook The Audiobook That Did Not Want To End – Part 2, from the same universe as The Book That Did Not Want To Be Read, is in the running for the Children’s books’ award.

Readers will be able to vote for their favorite works until February 9, after which a jury will pick a winner among the three candidates with the most votes in each category.

To cast your vote, click “Read more” below.