Lingua Franca

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2020 · 94 min · NR · Drama · TMDB 6.3/10

Overview

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.

Directed by Isabel Sandoval

Cast

• Isabel Sandoval — Olivia
• Lynn Cohen — Olga
• Eamon Farren — Alex
• Ivory Aquino — Trixie
• Lev Gorn — Murray