French producer, filmmaker and writer Benoit Cohen has been living in Brooklyn since 2014. In 2019, we invited him at the Lycée Français de New York to talk about his books. The first one Yellow Cab is about his personal experience: Cohen drove a cab around the five boroughs for a few months, in the perspective of writing a screenplay about a French actress becoming a taxi driver in New York and finally wrote Yellow Cab published in the US by Pointed Leaf Press. His second book Mohammad, Ma Mère, et Moi tells the story of his mother who welcome an Afghan refugee in her home in Paris.

In 2021, a graphic novel bande dessinée with drawings by Christophe Chabouté (The Park

Bench, Moby Dick) is published in January in France (later on in the US).

and Mohammad, Ma Mère, et Moi is soon to be a movie.