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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: Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni

Cast: Nanna Bøttcher, Yusuf Kamal El-Ali, Amira Helene Larsen, Zeinab Rahal, Alexandre Willaume, Peter Fog Jensen, Maria Yang-Busch

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.