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Lingua Franca

Name: Lingua Franca
Director: Isabel Sandoval
Genre: Drama
Released: 2019
Duration: 89 min

Directed by Isabel Sandoval

2019•89 min

Where to watchAvailability in the U.S.

Genre: Drama
Topic: Belonging
Mood: Intimate
Language: English
Featured in: Cinema Across Borders Queer Lives, Up Close

Synopsis

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.

Trailer

Selected Awards

Winner

Bentonville Film Festival

Best Narrative Feature (2019)

Nominee

Independent Spirit Awards

John Cassavetes Award (2019)

Nominee

GLAAD Media Award

Outstanding Film - Limited Release (2019)

Footnote

First
First openly trans woman of color to compete at the Venice Film Festival — in the Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) section; Isabel Sandoval directed, wrote, and starred