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.
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Genre: Drama
Runtime: 13 min
Director: Rungano Nyoni
Writers: Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni
Cast: Nanna Bøttcher, Yusuf Kamal El-Ali, Amira Helene Larsen, Zeinab Rahal, Alexandre Willaume, Peter Fog Jensen, Maria Yang-Busch
Rating: 7.4/10 (13 votes)
Country: Denmark, Finland, Sweden
Language: Arabic, Danish, English
Themes: police, islam, family conflict, woman director, short film
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