Lingua Franca (2019)
Olivia, an undocumented Filipino transwoman, works as a caregiver to Olga, an elderly Russian woman, in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. When Olivia runs out of options to attain legal status in the US, she becomes romantically involved with Alex, Olga’s adult grandson, in the pursuit of a marriage-based green card.
Director: Isabel Sandoval
Actors: Eamon Farren, Isabel Sandoval, Ivory Aquino, Lev Gorn, Lynn Cohen, P.J. Boudousqué
Country: Philippines, USA
Surviving Gilligan’s Island (2001)
It was as funny and as cartoonish as the series with three survivors (Gilligan, Mary-Anne, and the Professor) telling their favorite anecdotes and having some of them acted out. The…
Neither Heaven Nor Earth (2015)
Afghanistan 2014 As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antarès Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of…
Kala Bazaar (1989)
In modern secular India corruption, nepotism, caste, and favoritism has taken root all the way from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, sparing no one in it’s wake. Bombay Municipal Corporation’s …