Movies: Lynn Cohen

A nonconforming granddaughter (with shaved temples and piercing) comes to a retirement house to film a documentary about her boisterous grandmother who survived the Holocaust and Auschwitz. They are divided by more than half a century, they are unite...

Write Me, a poetry film, follows an older woman who joins other survivors in reclaiming the histories tattooed on their bodies. The film is adapted from and driven by an award-winning poem, "After Auschwitz," written by Deborah Kahan Kolb....

'Wherefore Art Thou?' is an original reimagining of Romeo and Juliet's balcony scene— as seen through the eyes of an elderly Juliet and the young nurse who embraces her at the end of her life. Facing a surrealistic form of dementia, Juliet journeys t...