Prague Short Film Festival Presents 2016 / Listen / Denmark, Finland 2014
A foreign woman in a burqa goes with 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, hard-hitting film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.
A foreign woman in a burqa goes with 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, hard-hitting film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.
Karel Spěšný
13 min / Color, DCP
Director Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni
/ Screenplay Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni
/ Dir. of Photography Lars Vestergaard
/ Music Kristian Selin Andersen
/ Editor Rikke Selin Lorentz
/ Art Director Jacob Stig Olsson
/ Producer Valeria Richter, Helene Granqvist
/ Production Pebble & DoDream
/ Cast Amira Helene Larsen, Yusuf Kamal El-Ali, Zeinab Rahal, Nanna Bøttcher, Alexandre Willaume
/ Contact The Finnish Film Foundation
Hamy Ramezan (1979) is a Finnish-Iranian director and winner of numerous awards. Rungano Nyoni was born in Zambia but grew up in Great Britain. Their films have screened at more than 200 festivals. Both filmmakers are currently working on their feature debuts.
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