LINGUA FRANCA

By Isabel SANDOVAL

TBA STUDIOS, INC. - as SALES All rights, SE Asia / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, PHILIPPINES / FIN

Social issues - Completed 2019

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.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival Cheries Cheris 2019
Best Picture
Venice - Biennale 2019
Official Selection
Young Critics Circle Film Desk 2020
Best Performance (Isabel Sandoval)
All Genders, Lifestyles and Identities 2020
Special Jury Prize
Bentonville 2020
Best Narrative Feature
Kyiv Molodist 2020
Special Jury Diploma
Queer Lisboa 2020
Best Film
Oslo/Fusion 2020
Best Narrative Feature
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Drama
    • Countries
    • USA, PHILIPPINES
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH-UNITED STATES, FILIPINO
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Isabel SANDOVAL
    • Writer(s)
    • Isabel SANDOVAL
    • Producer(s)
    • Jhett TOLENTINO, Isabel SANDOVAL, Carlo VELAYO, Darlene Catly MALIMAS
    • Synopsis
    • 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.