Listen

Listen (2014) is a drama film directed by Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni rated 7.3/10.

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

Nanna Bøttcher

Police woman

Yusuf Kamal El-Ali

Son

Amira Helene Larsen

Translator

Zeinab Rahal

Mother

Alexandre Willaume

Policeman

Peter Fog Jensen

Policeman in office

Maria Yang-Busch

Woman in corridor