DIRECTOR: Baltasar Kormakur
STARRING: Egill Olafsson, Koki, Palmi Kormakur Baltasarsson
RUNNING TIME: 2 hrs 1 minutes
LANGUAGE: Icelandic, English, Japanese
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try and find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
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Director Baltasar Kormakur is back with his latest film Touch. This is the fifth time he has been submitted by Iceland following The Sea in 2002, Jar City in 2007, White Night Wedding in 2008, The Deep in 2012 (which was shortlisted) and now Touch in 2024. The film made its worldwide debut in Iceland in May 2024, before being released in theatres across North America in July.
The film Touch directed by Baltasar Kormákur will be Iceland's submission to the Oscars 2025. The film was chosen by the jury of the Icelandic Film and Television Academy, which included representatives of the main professional associations of the Icelandic Film industry, as well as representatives of cinemas, film critics and the Icelandic Film Center. "Touch is both an epic and extremely human story about emotions, love, regret and the small moments in each person's life that gain meaning when looking back."
The film is produced by Baltasar Kormakur and Agnes Johansen for RVK Studios in collaboration with Mike Goodridge of Good Chaos in the UK. The film's global distributor is Universal, while its subsidiary, Focus Features is the distributor in the United States.
Touch is a drama.
To check out all previous submissions for Iceland, click HERE.
STARRING: Egill Olafsson, Koki, Palmi Kormakur Baltasarsson
RUNNING TIME: 2 hrs 1 minutes
LANGUAGE: Icelandic, English, Japanese
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try and find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
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Director Baltasar Kormakur is back with his latest film Touch. This is the fifth time he has been submitted by Iceland following The Sea in 2002, Jar City in 2007, White Night Wedding in 2008, The Deep in 2012 (which was shortlisted) and now Touch in 2024. The film made its worldwide debut in Iceland in May 2024, before being released in theatres across North America in July.
The film Touch directed by Baltasar Kormákur will be Iceland's submission to the Oscars 2025. The film was chosen by the jury of the Icelandic Film and Television Academy, which included representatives of the main professional associations of the Icelandic Film industry, as well as representatives of cinemas, film critics and the Icelandic Film Center. "Touch is both an epic and extremely human story about emotions, love, regret and the small moments in each person's life that gain meaning when looking back."
The film is produced by Baltasar Kormakur and Agnes Johansen for RVK Studios in collaboration with Mike Goodridge of Good Chaos in the UK. The film's global distributor is Universal, while its subsidiary, Focus Features is the distributor in the United States.
Touch is a drama.
To check out all previous submissions for Iceland, click HERE.
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