Lingua Franca (2020) | June 5

Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY. 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. – JustWatch.com

Director: Isabel Sandoval

Cast: Isabel Sandoval, Lynn Cohen, Eamon Farren, Ivory Aquino, Lev Gorn, P.J. Boudousqué, Andrea Leigh, Leif Steinert, Roman Blat

Country: United States

Distributor: ARRAY Releasing

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes

Platform: Netflix

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Author: Josh Hornbeck

Josh is the founder of Cinema Cocktail, and he is a writer and director, podcaster and critic, and communications and marketing professional living and working in the greater Seattle area.