TOUCH
Film - Spotlight

TOUCH

Directed by Baltasar Kormákur

Info

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Section: Spotlight
Country: Iceland, United Kingdom
Year: 2023
Language: English, Icelandic, Japanese
Version: Original version with English subtitles
Cast: Egill Ólafsson, Kôki, Palmi Kormákur, Yoko Narahashi, Masahiro Motoki
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

An entertaining film with a touching love story involving fond memories and old secrets that slowly come to light.

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Kristófer sets off from Iceland in search of Miko, the love of his life, whom he hasn’t seen in more than 50 years. Over the course of his journey, he recalls the London of the 1960s, where he’d met Miko in her father’s Japanese restaurant.

Show calendar
Photocredits: Lilja Jonsdottir/FOCUS FEATURES LLC.; Director's Photo: Universal Studios

Calendar

  • (only P&I)
    City 1
  • After the film: Q&A with Baltasar Kormákur

    ASTOR Astor Kino
  • Gloria Palast

Meet the director

TOUCH

Baltasar Kormákur

Baltasar Kormákur studied acting at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts and had a very successful acting career on stage and screen in the 1990s. His first film as a director, 101 REYKJAVÍK, was an international hit in 2000. That same year, Kormákur was voted Newcomer of the Year at the Toronto International Film Festival. He is now regarded as one of the leading voices in Icelandic filmmaking.

Credits

Screenplay: Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, Baltasar Kormákur
Original Material: Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
Director of Photography: Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
Film Editor: Sigurdur Eythorsson
Composer: Högni Egilsson
Producer: Baltasar Kormákur, Agnes Johansen, Mike Goodridge
Production Company: RVK Studios, Good Chaos Ltd.
Distributor: Universal Pictures International Germany GmbH