Cynthia Lester
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Brooklyn resident Cynthia Lester works at a crisis center, but her first film deals with her own family woes. In My Mother’s Garden, Lester tells the story of her mother, Eugenia, the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor. Eugenia suffers from hoarding disorder, which drives her to an unsettling existence surrounded by trash. Adopting a first person view, the movie features frightening generational tensions and the extremes of old-world frugality.
