Directed by Isabel Sandoval • 2019 • Philippines, United States
Starring Isabel Sandoval, Lynn Cohen, Eamon Farren
This poignant human drama from acclaimed writer-director-star Isabel Sandoval follows Olivia (Sandoval), an undocumented Filipina trans woman, after she has secured a job as a live-in caregiver for Olga (Lynn Cohen), an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood. Olivia’s main priority is to secure a green card to stay in America. But when she unexpectedly becomes romantically involved with Olga’s adult grandson Alex (Eamon Farren), issues around identity, civil rights, and immigration threaten her very existence.
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No Ordinary Man
Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt • 2020 • Canada
Starring Billy Tipton, Susan Stryker, Kate BornsteinAmerican jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-twentieth century, along with his band the Billy Tipton Trio. After his death in the...
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Dog Movie
Directed by Henry Hanson • 2023 • United States
Starring Jessi Gaston, Marten Katze, Milo TalwaniA passive-aggressive tenderqueer couple (Marten Katze and Jessi Gaston) send their household into a quiet tailspin when they adopt an elderly dog who shares the same name as the unemployed couch sur...
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Maggots and Men
Directed by Cary Cronenwett • 2009 • United States
Starring Stormy Henry Knight, Travis Clough, Scout FestaThis experimental historical narrative set in a mythologized version of revolutionary Russia reimagines the story of the 1921 uprising of the Kronstadt sailors and features the largest cas...
