Short of the Week
A Woman of No Importance
Directed by Gauri Adelkar · Starring Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Ahmad Razvi, Zephani Idoko, Alanna Smith · 2021
Ismat, an undocumented single mother working as a seamstress in New York, faces a choice between doing what is right and protecting herself.
A quietly gripping moral dilemma about an immigrant mother society barely sees.
Ismat, a single mother and undocumented seamstress in New York City, finds herself at a crossroads between morality and self-interest.
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