LINGUA FRANCA

by Isabel Sandoval

United States, Philippines, 2019, 94', color, DCP

Screenplay: Isabel Sandoval

Wednesday 28 August 2019

14:00 Sala Perla Press, Industry

Friday 06 September 2019

17:00 Sala Perla Tickets, All Accreditations
Followed by Q&A

Saturday 07 September 2019

21:30 Cinema Rossini Tickets

Saturday 07 September 2019

21:30 IMG Cinemas Candiani - Mestre Tickets

cinematography
Isaac Banks
editing
Isabel Sandoval
music
Teresa Barrozo
sound
Albert Michael Idioma
production design
Clint Ramos
Maxwell Nalevansky
costumes
Clint Ramos
Kate Fry

cast
Isabel Sandoval
[Olivia]
Eamon Farren
[Alex]
Lynn Cohen
[Olga]
Lev Gorn
[Murray]
Ivory Aquino
[Trixie]
PJ Boudousque
[Andrei]

producers
Jhett Tolentino
Carlo Velayo
Darlene Malimas
Isabel Sandoval
Jerome Kerkman
production
7107 Entertainment
co-producers
Cecilia Mejia
Jeremiah Abraham

with the support of
New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment
New York Foundation for the Arts
Tribeca Film Institute
Frameline
US in Progress Paris
SFFILM
IFP
in association with
Front Row Entertainment
TBA Studios

world sales
Luxbox
mail

International
press office
The PR Factory
Barbara Van Lombeek

Olivia, 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 the old woman's nephew, Alex, a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she's transgender. When Alex's machismo is threatened upon discovering her transgender status, he finds himself weaponizing her immigration anxieties to emotionally brutalize Olivia.

LINGUA FRANCA

Filmography

2019 Lingua Franca

2012 Aparisyon (Apparition)

2011 Se�orita

Isabel Sandoval is a New York-based filmmaker whom The Museum of Modern Art has recognized as a "rarity among the young generation of Filipino filmmakers." She has produced, written and directed three fiction features, including Señorita (2011), which premiered in competition at Locarno. Her follow-up, Apparition (2012), premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and won awards in Hawaii and Deauville. Lingua Franca is her third feature. She is in development on her fourth, "Park Avenue," slated for production in 2020.

"A frisson of sensual languor charges Lingua Franca's every frame, the sly undercurrent powering its narrative: two lovers on the proverbial lam from a fraught milieu that is politically and spiritually frayed. It's a hushed, delicately stealthy piece, where the silences are more telling than spoken words, and the subtle, nearly imperceptible wisps of feeling cut more deeply than explosions of emotion. Intimacy veers warily between intoxication and claustrophobia as the lovers negotiate a pas de deux of surrender and control, set against the backdrop of deportation raids in modern-day America." [Isabel Sandoval]