Most coming-of-age stories deal in the vagaries of adolescence — that confusing time defined by dramatic confrontations with unfamiliar feeling. But Sarah Friedland’s affecting debut Familiar Touch, ...

The writer-director Sarah Friedland makes little mystery of her main character’s circumstances in the first few minutes of “Familiar Touch,” a plaintive triumph opening for a weeklong run at the ...

With a unique approach to its portrayal of dementia, Sarah Friedland’s Familiar Touch is a movie that I really wanted to like. Touting itself as a coming-of-old-age story about a woman entering a long ...

Author Sandra Cisneros, who penned standout coming-of-age novel "The House on Mango Street," speaks at the 2024 National Book Festival at The Walter E. Washington Convention Center on August 24, 2024.

Kathleen Chalfant stars in Sarah Friedland's drama following an octogenarian as she confronts the realities of dementia and moving into an assisted living facility. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture ...

Shaina is a Features Author and former editor for Collider who is thrilled to have found a good use for her English degree. Having watched her way through a Film minor in undergrad, she's written on ...