Events & Gatherings
Cinema at the Museum: Lingua Franca
This March, Cinema at the Museum presents a series of films that feature groundbreaking and innovative women directors in honour of Women’s History Month. These films create expansive dialogues that speak to kinship, the construct of femininity, class, identity, and immigration.
Thursday, March 27, 7 PM
Film: Lingua Franca
Director: Isabel Sandoval
Year: 2019
Runtime: 89 minutes
Country: United States & Philippines
Rating: N/A
Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation, works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in New York. 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.
Event/Exhibition meta autogenerated block.
When
March 27 at 7:00PM–9:00PM
Where
SaskTel Theatre
March 27 at 7:00PM – 9:00PM
Presented in honour of International Transgender Day of Visibility.
Special thanks to ARRAY for assisting with this screening.
Film tickets are $10 at the front desk; free admission for members and youth under 18. Seating is first come, first served. Talks, tours and other events are admission by donation or free with membership.