Touch

Part of Cinema Explorations, a wintertime community-curated film series. Free and open to the public.

This Icelandic film from Baltasar Kormákur made the shortlist in the 2025 Best International Feature Film Oscar competition. It tells a romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades, three countries, two oceans, and a world war. Kristófer is an aging and ailing widower who decides to devote his dwindling lifespan retracing the steps of his youth working in a restaurant to find his first love who disappeared from his life 50 years earlier. That is just the starting point for his journey.

“Touch rekindles a treacly genre that I didn’t realize I missed. Its tender performances and gut-punch reveals are classic tear-jerker ingredients. Add to this a natural, inordinately sensitive approach to intercultural love—mercifully, without a sense of righteousness or obligation.”—Beatrice Loayza, New York Times.

In English and in Icelandic and Japanese with English subtitles.

R
2 hours 1 minute
https://www.watervillecreates.org/shows/touch/

You may also like the following events from Maine Film Center:

• This Saturday, 17th January, 12:00 pm, Hamnet in Waterville
• This Saturday, 17th January, 02:00 pm, The Choral in Waterville
• This Saturday, 17th January, 02:00 pm, Dead Man's Wire in Waterville

Also check out other Entertainment events in Waterville, Contests in Waterville.