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Nordic Drama Queens Ventures Into Feature With ‘Will You Care If I Die’ From ‘Young Royals’ Rojda Sekersöz (EXCLUSIVE)
Nordic Drama Queens' debut feature, 'Will You Care if I Die,' explores hope through a youth worker's bond with a gifted teen.
An immediate sensation when published in Sweden in 2022, the literary debut of social worker and Swedish Martin Luther King Prize winner Lunabba was sold to multiple territories, including Germany and the U.K. Based on the author’s own experience, the story is billed as a moving and hopeful drama, charting the unlikely friendship between youth worker Nic and 14-year-old Elijah, a gifted young basketball player growing up in a world marked by instability and violence. Sekersöz, who made her mark in 2017 with her acclaimed socially engaged coming-of-age film “Beyond Dreams,” added: “We are in a dangerous place as a society when we use immigrants and people in socio-economically vulnerable areas as scapegoats for political failures.
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