Goteborg’s Nordic Film Market Unveils Lineup

“Cop Secret,” “Magrete – Queen of the North” and “The Emigrants” are among 12 wide-ranging projects set to be presented at a virtual Nordic Film Market, Scandinavia’s biggest industry showcase which runs alongside the Goteborg Film Festival.“Cop Secret,” directed by Icelandic gaolkeeper turned filmmaker Hannes Þór Halldórsson, is an action comedy following a tough cop who in denial about his sexuality and falls in love with his new partner while investigating a litany of bank robberies.

The movie is being produced by Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir at Icelandic banner Pegasus and started shooting in September.Both “Magrete – Queen of the North” and “The Emigrants” are highly anticipated historical dramas produced by Sf Studios and represented in international markets by REinvent.“Magrete – Queen of the North” is directed by Charlotte Sieling, the acclaimed Danish director of “The Killing” and “The Bridge,” among others.

The movie is set in 1402 and stars Trine Dyrholm

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