FAMILIAR TOUCH

by Sarah Friedland

SYNOPSIS

Familiar Touch is a coming-of-old age film. It follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

GENERAL INFORMATION

2024 / USA / English / 91 min

By the producers of Ex-Husbands (San Sebastian Competition 2023), Funny Face (Berlin Encounters 2020), The Mountains Are A Dream That Call To Me (Sundance NEXT 2020).

Produced by Rathaus, Go For Thurm, Armchair Poetics

CLIP

CAST

Kathleen Chalfant, Carolyn Michelle, Andy McQueen, H. Jon Benjamin

  • "An achingly intimate dementia drama"

    Indiewire

  • “The film is not merely an observation of aging. It is also about how this process echoes the emotional dramas of adolescence, and Friedland liberates the story of older adults from the confines of melancholy”

    The Hollywood Reporter