Drama

the mother in the interrogation room or a frame with translator in mid‑shadow

LISTEN

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.

Ian Golovin standing in a desolate Soviet‑era city and looking ahead, burdened by departure — still from Goodbye Golovin.

Goodbye Golovin

Mathieu Grimard
UKRAINE
2019

After the sudden death of his father, Ian Golovin sees an opportunity to escape his stifling life in a provincial Soviet‑era city full of tower blocks and limitations. Packing to leave, he must confront what he’s abandoning as he bids farewell to his sister, and ask whether running away can ever be enough to change who he is.

A young man with cropped hair stands shirtless against a plain wall, his skin marked with red blemishes and a gold cross necklace around his neck, looking off‑screen with a tense, searching expression — a still from Brendan Canty’s short film Christy.

CHRISTY

Brendan Canty
Ireland
2019

In a single day in Cork’s housing estates, 16‑year‑old Christy drifts between school, home and the streets, caught between explosive anger and a fragile longing to belong. Brendan Canty’s short film observes him without judgment, capturing the raw, restless energy of a boy rehearsing adulthood without ever having been taught how to feel.

A GIRL LOOKING OVER HER SHOULDER

UMBRA (Tariki)

Saeed Jafarian
IRAN
2020

A few minutes after midnight, the young lady realizes that her partner has disappeared after sex. She goes out worried about seeking her partner in the darkness of the streets.

Sonia hadad sitting in classroom

EXAM

Sonia Hadad
IRAN
2021

It’s a school morning like any other for a teenage girl preparing for an important exam. But her father has assigned her a dangerous “delivery” — a package she must drop off before class. When the buyer fails to show, she is forced to bring the illicit contents into school with her. As tension mounts, she must navigate scrutiny, a surprise bag search, and her own fractured resolve.