Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur (Everest;
Beast) returns to his home country for Touch, adapted from the novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, who co-writes with the director. The film
sees a dying man embark on a search for his first love, who mysteriously
vanished a half century earlier.
Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Pálmi Kormákur, Masahiro Motoki, Yoko Narahashi,
Meg Kubota, Tatsuya Tagawa, Charles Nishikawa, Sigurður Ingvarsson,
Benedikt Erlingsson, Kieran Buckeridge, Ruth Sheen, María Ellingsen
and Masatoshi Nakamura star.
Touch is in UK/ROI cinemas from August 30th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; TOUCH follows one widower’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.
