The young film director Kareem Akbari has been invited to the Films from the South Festival in Oslo. He lives in London, but spent his childhood years in Oslo, after his parents fled from Iraq in the ’80s. Kareem’s first film, “The House”, has been chosen to open the festival, among other things because he criticizes the American presence in Iraq. But is it really a political film? And what is home to Kareem?

Karin, a French student and weather forecaster at TVNorge, is at the cinema. After her ex leaked a sex tape online, she has reached a whole new level of fame at Google. How can she escape the way people look at her?

Kareem only spends 24 hours in Oslo, but he meets Karin – and it turns out to be a meeting they will never forget.

Karin and Kareem is a novel about politics and rage, about lust and love, and about seeing oneself and being seen by others.

Praise for Karin and Kareem:

“The author still writes better than most (…) This is a quiet and beautiful little novel. Øybø’s sentences and dialogues may very well be read several times, the portrayal of the connection between man and woman is intimate and graceful, with a desirous lightness to it.”
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