immigration
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Ian McKellan reciting the rich language of William Shakespeare to confront American cruelty toward immigrants in 2026.
One of the very many severe damages that The Orange Man has inflicted on us is reducing language to the level of a petulant 8 year-old-child having one continuous temper tantrum. We assume it’s all part of his daily efforts to controll the agenda and distract us all from all the matters that he so…
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Farewell Amor
Ekwa Msangi’s insightful and delicate tale of reconciliation starts at JFK airport where Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) waits for his wife and daughter that he hasn’t seen for 17 years. It’s taken this amount of time for him to be able to legally get them to immigrate from his Angolan homeland. Msangi shows…
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PBS screens UNSETTLED: Seeking Refuge in the US
With so much of PRIDE month being celebrated online this year out if necessity it is giving us a wealth of excellent programming ……. and most of it free. Next week PBS are mounting a screening of UNSETTLED Tim Shepard’s powerful message about the plight of LGBTQ refugees. Prior to that to mark World…
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Lingua Franca : the tale of an undocumented Filipino trans caregiver
NY based Filipino trans filmmaker Isobel Sandoval’s heart-wrenching third feature film is sadly one of those tales of the moment that seem like they can never end well. Its the story of Olivia (played by Sandoval) who is an undocumented Filipino caregiver who looks after Olga an elderly Russian Jewish women (Lynn Cohen) in…
