Baker Karim is an acclaimed Swedish film director, born in 1974 in Uganda and raised in Sweden. He studied film at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and started his career in the film industry working with Roger Corman at his film studio in the early 90s. Back in Sweden, he debuted with the highly acclaimed indie feature FOUR WOMEN (2001), which was nominated for Best Nordic film of that year and launched Baker into Swedish director stardom. His following films have been selected twice to the Cannes Film Festival, nominated for the Swedish Academy Award “Guldbagge” as well as for the Swedish Emmys, “Kristallen”. His latest feature film GLACIER was released in 2021 to rave reviews and spent eight weeks as the number one film in Sweden. In 2020, Baker, together with his brother Alexander Karim and the writer Camilla Läckberg, founded the production company Bad Flamingo.