Listen (2020)

Directed by

Ana Rocha

Genre

drama

Country

Portugal

Runtime

1h 13m

Rated

12+

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Portuguese couple living in England face a child protection investigation. The film follows their struggle to keep their family together.

tenseemotionalquietly intensehumanisticsensitiveurgentfamily-centered

What happens

Listen is a 2020 Portuguese drama film written and directed by Ana Rocha de Sousa that stars Lúcia Moniz and Sophia Myles. The film premiered in the Horizon section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Special Jury Prize. It was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. However, in December 2020 the film was disqualified, as more than half of its dialogue was in English. It won 3 Sophia Awards in 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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