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13 mins
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.
Amira Helene Larsen
Translator
Zeinab Rahal
Mother
Peter Fog Jensen
Policeman in office
Maria Yang-Busch
Woman in corridor
Hamy Ramezan
Director
Hamy Ramezan
Writer
Valeria Richter
Producer
Helene Granqvist
Producer
RIKKE SELIN- LORENTZEN
Editor