Hamy Ramezan & Rungano Nyoni

Hamy Ramezan & Rungano Nyoni

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Hamy Ramezan & Rungano Nyoni
DENMARK
2014

A Muslim woman wearing a burqa arrives at a Copenhagen police station with her young son to report abuse by her husband. Because she does not speak Danish fluently, a translator is assigned. But the translator repeatedly alters or omits her words, filtering her plea for help. As the conversation loops through shifts in perspective, we begin to see how language, authority, and power distort truth — and how fragile is the act of being heard.