Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Fifty years is a long time to carry a memory, and director Baltasar Kormákur's "Touch" follows an elderly man determined to chase his down before it's too late.
What is Touch about?
Racing against a diagnosis that leaves him with an uncertain amount of time, an aging man sets off to find the first love he lost track of half a century earlier. The search carries him across decades and across continents, reconstructing a relationship that began in a very different era and was interrupted before it could fully unfold. As he retraces old steps and confronts what remains of the past, the film moves fluidly between his present-day journey and the memories that shaped it, building toward the answer he's been avoiding for most of his adult life. It's a story built on patience and longing rather than plot twists, more interested in the emotional weight of unfinished business than in surprise. The film's structure, hopping between countries and timelines, gives the search room to breathe while keeping the central mystery of what happened to his first love firmly at the center.
Cast & crew
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur helms the film, with Egill Ólafsson leading as the man searching for his lost love, opposite Kōki, Pálmi Kormákur Baltasarsson, and Japanese veteran actor Masahiro Motoki in key supporting roles.
Context & significance
A co-production between Iceland and the United Kingdom, the film spans locations tied to its cross-continental story and reflects Kormákur's ongoing interest in stories that stretch across generations and geography rather than staying confined to a single setting or timeframe. The shifting backdrops mirror the character's own sense of displacement, a man out of step with both the country he settled in and the one he left behind decades earlier.
Where & how to watch
"Touch" is available on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers full access to the film's quieter, dialogue-driven emotional beats. The page itself is free to browse, and watching only requires a free K-Time account and login, through an interface built around a Farsi-language streaming experience for the diaspora.