A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to get away from her abusive
husband, yet the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words to the police,
thus corrupting the truth of her terrible situation.

Direction: Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni

Script: Rungano Nyoni, Hamy Ramezan

Production: Valeria Richter, Helene Granqvist, Valeria Richter, Helene Granqvist

Cinematography: Lars Vestergaard

Editing: Rikke Selin Lorentzen

Production Design: Jakob Stig Olsson

Costume Design: Camilla Nordbjerg

Sound: Thomas Jæger

Original Score: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen

Cast: Zeinab Rahal, Amira Helene Larsen, Alexandre Willaume, Yusuf Kamal El-Ali, Nanna Bøttcher

Original Title: LISTEN

Original Languages: Arabic, Danish

Subtitles: English

Film Production Countries: Denmark, Finland

Website: www.nordicfactoryfilm.com

Statement of the Director/s
“We directed a cast and crew whose first languages were Danish and Arabic, which both of us don’t speak, so we had our own experience of miscommunication, at least at the beginning. After a dodgy first day, we learnt how to communicate, sometimes without even speaking the same language. Lots of big gestures and focus and we understood each other’s needs - it was fascinating.”

Biography of the Director/s
Hamy Ramezan is a Finnish-Iranian film director and scriptwriter. He studied film in England, graduating in 2007. His short film Over the Fence, 2009, was a worldwide festival hit and was screened at more than 40 international film festivals, earning many awards, incl. Best Live Action Short at Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival and Special Mention at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Keys of Heaven, among other awards, won 4 prizes at the Tampere Film Festival 2014. He is currently developing his first feature, Motel of a Thousand Roses.

Rungano Nyoni’s films have screened at more than 200 film festivals worldwide. In 2012, her most recent short, Mwansa The Great, was nominated for an African Academy Award and a BAFTA. With her partner, she wrote and he directed The Mass of Men that premiered at Locarno Film Festival, it garnered more than 60 prizes and was shown at 100 film festivals. In 2013 she was selected for Cannes Cinefondation Residency for her 1st feature film, I am not a witch.

Awards Won
Hong Kong International FF, Grand Firebird Award; Tribeca FF, New York, USA, Best Narrative Short Award; REGARD sur le court métrage/Int. Short FF, Canada, International Grand Prize; Alicante FF, Spain, Best European Short film Award; ICCL Human Rights Film Award, Ireland.

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