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Hamy Ramezan
2014-09-10


7
13 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Nanna Bøttcher Police woman Unowned
Yusuf Kamal El-Ali Son Unowned
Amira Helene Larsen Translator Unowned
Zeinab Rahal Mother Unowned
Alexandre Willaume Policeman Unowned
Peter Fog Jensen Policeman in office Unowned
Maria Yang-Busch Woman in corridor Unowned