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Familiar Touch

Dir. Sarah Friedland
Constellation
Sun 10 Nov and Wed 13 Nov
Sun 10 Nov
and
Wed 13 Nov
  • Sun 10 Nov
    20:45 - 22:15
    Vue in the Light, Leeds
    Screen 12
    Tickets
  • Wed 13 Nov
    18:30 - 20:00
    Vue in the Light, Leeds
    Screen 12
    Tickets

Sarah Friedland’s compassionate and quietly profound portrait of an elderly woman’s transition to assisted living.

One of the highlights of this year’s Venice Film Festival, Sarah Friedland’s Familiar Touch won three top awards in the Horizons section - Best Debut, Best Director, and Best Actress for Kathleen Chalfant as Ruth. Familiar Touch is a refreshing, funny and very moving coming of (old) age film about octogenarian Ruth and her 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. Ruth disavows not only the roles expected of her - Mother, Patient, Old Lady - but also her “appropriate” age identity, sliding between feeling 85 and 25.

“An exquisite study of living with dementia that puts its perspective in the right place.” – Guy Lodge, Variety

Director: Sarah Friedland
Running time: 90 minutes
Production year: 2024
Country: USA
Language: English
Print source: Memento
Cast: Kathleen Chalfant, Carolyn Michelle Smith

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Constellation

Constellation is the new name for our main programme section where we preview many of the most talked about films of the year and present UK Premieres of films from exciting new filmmakers in our feature film competition.