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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.

Director: Rungano Nyoni

Cast

Nanna Bøttcher

Police woman

Y

Yusuf Kamal El-Ali

Son

A

Amira Helene Larsen

Translator

Z

Zeinab Rahal

Mother

Alexandre Willaume

Policeman

P

Peter Fog Jensen

Policeman in office

M

Maria Yang-Busch

Woman in corridor