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13 mins | Drama | Sept. 10, 2014

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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13 mins | Drama | Sept. 10, 2014

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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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Suomen Elokuvasäätiö, Nordic Factory Film
Original title Kuuntele
Directors Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni
Writers Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni

Cast

Nanna Bøttcher

as Police woman

Amira Helene Larsen

as Translator

Zeinab Rahal

as Mother

Alexandre Willaume

as Policeman

Peter Fog Jensen

as Policeman in office

Maria Yang-Busch

as Woman in corridor