Event from UCSF Calendar focused on fitness, wellbeing, run and recreation.
Details
- Type Event
- Date
- Time -
About
We are thrilled to welcome American filmmaker Sarah Friedland to the UCSF Memory and Aging Center for a screening of her feature film Familiar Touch. Awarded the Luigi de Laurentiis Lion of the Future for best first film and Best Director award at the Venice International Film Festival (2024), this film intimately follows an octagenarian woman's transition into assisted living and the shifts in identity, memory, and physicality that follow. The narrative in anchored in moments of empathy and frustration, loss and gain, and with a sensitivty to the body and the senses.
Immediately following the film screening, we will host a panel conversation featuring Sarah Friedland alongside filmmakers Michelle Memran (The Rest I Make Up) and Cynthia Stone (Keys, Bags, Names, Words), and Stacy Kono (Director of Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employer's Network) for a conversation about the aesthetics of aging, caregiving, and neurodegenerative disease in contemporary film.
Watch the trailer for Familiar Touch here.