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Lingua Franca (2020)

Lingua Franca (2020)

NR 95 minutes EN Drama
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.
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Production companies: 7107 Entertainment
Production countries: United States of America

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