82 years old, never swam a lap, and she's about to make a splash.
With depth, intimacy, and humor, FLOAT! captures filmmaker Azza Cohen's magnetic grandma’s life-affirming journey learning to swim at 82, inspiring audiences to defy societal expectations of aging and to boldly look forward at every stage.
Direction
Cohen's intimate lens turns home movies into poetry.
Practical Effects
Real pool, real fear, real triumph—zero Hollywood fakery.
Director
Azza Cohen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Judy Miller had never put her face in water before filming—her genuine terror and triumph are completely unscripted.
The Yiddish term 'bubbe' in the title signals a specifically Jewish-American grandmother archetype rarely celebrated onscreen.
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