Molly's Pilgrim

12/6/2025

This is quite a touching, low budget, drama that spends a little time with “Molly” (Sophia Eliazova). She and her parents are recent emigrants to the USA and having already anglicised her name, she is keen to integrate at school. Her teacher is supportive, but “Elizabeth” (Andrea Lawn) rather looks down her nose at her, and encourages others to laugh at her pronounced vowels. With Thanksgiving looming large, the class are given the task of understanding it’s pilgrim provenance and that includes the making of a doll to represent either the new arrivals or the native Americans who welcomed them. With loads of help from her mum (Polina Klimovitskaya) they create their own small definition of a “pilgrim” - one that doesn’t quite conform to the norm that “Molly” thinks she needs to fit in, but