A little slice of the Philippines is heading to the Gimli Film Festival. Transit, a film by Hannah Espia and produced by Paul Soriano will be screened at the 2014 Gimli Film Festival on Saturday, July 26 at 2:30pm at the Aspire Theatre.
Transit explores the intersecting stories of Filipinos in Tel Aviv when the threat of a law deporting the children of migrant workers looms their precarious lives. Janet, a domestic worker on an expired visa, struggles to hide her half-Israeli daughter, Yael—a rebellious teenager caught up in a juvenile romance. Most endangered in the situation is four-year old Joshua, whom Janet and Yael protect because the boy’s father, Moises, works on weekdays as a caregiver in the city of Herzliya. The film also explores the life of a young lady, Tina, who arrives to start a new life in Israel.
Transit examines what it means to be a family and what it means to be a stranger, within one’s home and in a foreign land.
The GFF Box office will be open in it’s new home on weekends and holidays from noon – 4pm. As of July 14 the box office will be open daily from 10am – 5pm. In Winnipeg, passes can be purchased Monday – Friday, 9am – at On Screen Manitoba, 100 Arthur Street.
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