Baltasar Kormákur’s ‘Touch’ Selected As Iceland’s International Feature Oscar Entry
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Baltasar Kormákur’s Icelandic box office hit Touch has been chosen as the country’s International Feature Oscar entry.
This marks the fifth time that the filmmaker is repping Iceland in the category. Touch is based on the Icelandic bestselling novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafssonand and the script is co-written by Ólafsson and Kormákur.
Focus Features has rights in all markets outside Iceland, where, in July, it became the highest-grossing movie of the year. Focus released the romantic drama in theaters July 12, with a $1.1 million North American gross so far and $2.4M global to date.
The film follows widower Kristofer (Egil Ólafsson), who, after receiving an early-stage dementia diagnosis at the outset of the Covid pandemic, leaves behind his Reykjavik home hoping to solve the greatest mystery of his life.
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