The Göteborg Film Festival , unspooling Jan. 23-Feb 1, has unveiled the first heavyweight names who will bring star power to the leading Nordic film festival and industry event.

Following up on last year’s accolade to Thomas Vinterberg , versatile Swedish actor and producer Noomi Rapace will receive the festival’s coveted Nordic Honorary Dragon Award Jan. 28, to highlight her talent in “captivating audiences around the world with her uncompromising presence and fearless expressive power,” said artistic director Pia Lundberg who added: “Her ability to find and portray what burns, unsettles and moves us cuts straight through the screen.”

Rapace whose career spans over nearly two decades and 50 films and series, will be honored with a retrospective spotlighting three of her most signifi

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