Lingua Franca
2020·Movie
·1h 35min·


About
Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation, works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in New York. When the man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s a trans woman.
Intimate Character StudyTransgender RomanceImmigration DramaSocial RealismPoignant & UnderstatedVulnerable ProtagonistNew York SettingEmotional JourneySlow-Burn Narrative
Actors
Crew
Directed by:
Isabel Sandoval, Dax Stringer, Devin Smith
Written by:
Isabel Sandoval
Produced by:
E.A. Rocha, Jhett Tolentino, Fernando Ortigas
Composed by:
Teresa Barrozo, Albert Michael Idioma, Barbaros Ali Kaynak
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