Touch OTT release date in India: Here's when and where you can stream Iceland's Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film

The 2024 Icelandic romantic drama film Touch is preparing for its OTT premiere in India. Beginning January 12, 2025, the Baltasar Kormákur-directed film will stream on JioCinema (OTTplay Premium) in English and Hindi. Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, and Palmi Kormakur appear in the film, which was written by Baltasar and Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson. Ólafur's novel of the same name serves as the film's inspiration. The United States, the United Kingdom, and Iceland all worked together on this international co-production.

Kristofer’s quest amidst a pandemic

Touch is an exciting and romantic tale that takes place across continents and decades, adapted from the best-selling Icelandic novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson. After his wife dies, the protagonist of Touch embarks on a wrenching quest to reunite with his first love, who vanished fifty years earlier, in the final moments of his life.

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Realizing the urgency of the impending epidemic, Kristofer embarks on a quest to uncover the truth behind his Japanese fiancée's 50-year disappearance from London.

Touch is a love story about a widower named Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) who, after receiving a sad diagnosis, decides to figure out one of life's biggest mysteries.

He takes an Icelandair aircraft to London, even though the coronavirus pandemic has just begun, in order to discover what became of his childhood sweetheart, Miko (Kōki), whom he encountered in the late 1960s while working as a student at a Japanese restaurant in London. During the peak of their brief romance, Miko vanished without any trace.

Iceland's entry for the Oscars

At the 97th Academy Awards, Touch has been selected as Iceland's entry for Best International Feature Film.

Touch flits between several eras. Additionally, it evolves from a story of a man seeking resolution and a love story between two young people who meet by chance in London to the revelation of a secret that stems from the Hiroshima nuclear bombing in World War II. It seemed even more alien to Kormákur than Japan to the novelist Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, who had lived there before.

Earlier in an interview with Variety, talking about adapting the novel, Baltasar stated that he was intrigued by the novel his daughter got him for Christmas, even though she didn't provide much information about it. After that, the novel captivated him, as he read about an elderly man reflecting on his life. In the most unhurried way possible, it turned pages.

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