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A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.
- Denmark, Finland
- 2014, 13 min
- Director: Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni
- Director of photography: Lars Vestergaard
- Editor: Rikke Selin Lorentzen
- Music: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen
- Cast: Amira Helene Larsen, Yusuf Kamal El-Ali, Zeinab Rahal, Nanna Bøttcher, Alexandre Willaume
- Coproduction: Copenhagen Film Fund
- Producer: Valeria Richter, Helene Granqvist
Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni
Hamy Ramezan is a Finnish-Iranian director and winner of many awards. Rungano Nyoni was born in Zambia but grew up in Great Britain. Her films were featured at more than 200 festivals. Both the filmmakers are now working on their feature debuts.