Familiar Touch

Sensitive, touching, and brimming with gentle humor: a woman struggles with dementia and her transition to assisted living.

At times, 80-year-old Ruth still feels as young and exuberant as a teenager, ready for love. She already finds it difficult to accept that she can no longer manage her everyday life on her own. It’s even harder for her to acknowledge the cognitive decline she is suffering because of dementia. She rejects the roles ascribed to her, whether it’s that of mother, patient, or old lady. Conflicts with the nursing staff at her new residential home are inevitable. As are identity crises: who am I? And who am I still?

Director Sarah Friedland began writing ›Familiar Touch‹ shortly after the death of her grandmother, who had dementia. With a lot of humor, but without shying away from uncomfortable truths, she succeeds in creating a coming-of-age drama about old age that is moving and continually surprising.

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