Lingua Franca
2019, 89 minutes
Genre
drama   feature (45 min or over)  
Keywords/theme
undocumented Filipino transwoman   caregiver   Brooklyn  
Media type
film/video  
Country of origin

United States of America

Philippines

Production company

7107 Entertainment

Technical specs

Colour

Languages

English/English

Russian/русский

Tagalog/Wikang Tagalog

Content Warnings
Unreviewed
Images
Two people are looking at each other intently. The person on the left has long brown hair and bangs and light brown skin. They are wearing a tank top and hoop earrings. The person on the right has light skin with a mustache and short brown hair. They are wearing a brown button up with a blue strip on it. The background is blurred out.

Two people are looking at each other intently. The person on the left has long brown hair and bangs and light brown skin. They are wearing a tank top and hoop earrings. The person on the right has light skin with a mustache and short brown hair. They are wearing a brown button up with a blue strip on it. The background is blurred out.

Description

In this beguiling drama, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. When the American 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 transgender.

Luxbox. “Lingua Franca.” Accessed July 11, 2022. http://www.luxboxfilms.com/lingua-franca.

Cast & Crew
Crew
Cast
Distribution
Distributors
Luxbox

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