WELCOME TO THE USA Trailer New Fest 2020 New York LGBTQ Film Festival

WELCOME TO THE USA Official NewFest Selection Director Assel Aushakimova How do you choose yourself when everyone around you seems content to stagnate in their own complacency In her gorgeous, topical narrative feature debut, Kazakh filmmaker Assel Aushakimova paints a heartbreaking and hopeful portrait of a journey she knows intimately, that of a 36yearold lesbian who has spent her entire life fighting her way to stability in homophobic, politically repressed Kazakh society. When Aliya (Saltanat Nauruz