SYNOPSIS
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.
Awards
Grand Prix | Festival Regard Sur Le Court Metrage Au Saguenay, Canada, 2015
Best Short Film | Helsingin Lyhytelokuvafestivaali, Finland, 2015
Short Of The Year | , Spain, 2015
CAST & CREW
Hamy Ramezan
Director
Producer(s)
Valeria Richter, Helene Granqvist
Script
Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni
Director of Photography
Lars Vestergaard
Music by
Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen
Sound
Thomas Jæger
Edit
Rikke Selin Lorentzen
Cast
Zeinab Rahal, Yusuf Kamal El-Ali
Production company(ies)
Pebble & Dodream For Nordic Factory Juan Bravo
Hamy Ramezan
Born 1979, Tehran, Iran. Director and screenwriter. His short films include Over the Fence, which screened at more than 40 festivals worldwide, and Keys of Heaven, which won four prizes at the Tampere FF. His short film Listen is a collaboration with Rungano Nyoni, and premiered at the Director's Fortnight in Cannes.
Filmography
Over the Fence (2009, short), Keys of Heaven (2014, short), Nordic Factory (2014), Listen (2014, short).
Rungano Nyoni
Director
Rungano Nyoni
Born in Lusaka, Zambia.She has directed the award-winning short The Mass of Men and Mwansa the Great, which was nominated for an African Academy Award and a BAFTA. In 2013, she was selected for Cannes Cinéfondation Residency for her first feature film, I Am Not a Witch.
Filmography
20 Questions (2009, short), Mwansa the Great (2011, short), Nordic Factory (2014), Listen (2014, short).
