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Touch

Directed by Baltasar Kormákur
2024
Iceland, UK
121 minutes
Unclassified 18+
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An epic romantic story spanning decades and continents, from Iceland to Japan via London. Love blooms, is lost and then searched for 50 years later. Based on the best selling novel.

Widower Kristofer (Egill Ólafsson) sets off from Iceland on a seemingly impossible mission. Decades earlier, the young Kristofer (Pálmi Kormákur) meets his first love, Miko (Kōki), in London. A student of economics, he decides – as part-commitment to the working class, part-whim, part-dare – to give up his studies and work in a Japanese restaurant. And it’s there he meets Miko, the owner’s daughter, and romance blossoms. Then she disappears without trace. All these decades later, with limited time left, Kristofer ends up in COVID-affected London and tries to track her down, eventually leading him to Japan and an astonishing discovery. Based on the bestseller by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson and directed by Iceland’s multi-award-winning director Kormákur (Jar City, SFF 2008; 101 Reykjavik, SFF 2001), Touch is a deeply moving, delicate and spellbinding romance.

Limited seats are available for patrons requiring access for wheelchairs, low vision and hearing loop. Please contact our ticketing team directly on 1300 733 733 or tickets@sff.org.au to complete your booking.

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Fri 14 Jun
6pm
State Theatre
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Sat 15 Jun
7pm
Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 4
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Program Strand
Special Presentations
Year
2024
Classification
Unclassified 18+
Country
Iceland, UK
Language
In English, Icelandic and Japanese with English subtitles
Premiere Status
International Premiere
Director
Baltasar Kormákur
Producer
Baltasar Kormákur, Mike Goodridge, Agnes Johansen
Cast
Egill Ólafsson, Pálmi Kormákur, Kōki
Screenwriter
Baltasar Kormákur, Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
Cinematographer
Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
Editor
Sigurður Eyþórsson
Genre
Literary & Adaptations, Scandinavia
Company Credits
Australian Distributor: Universal Pictures International
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