2013 · drama · immigration
Transit
Directed by Hannah Espia1h 33m2013
Moises, a single Filipino dad, comes home to celebrate his son's fourth birthday and learns that the Israeli government is going to deport the children of foreign workers.
Our read: Transit (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · immigration entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / immigration, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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