TOUCH shortlisted for International Feature Film Oscar
Baltasar Kormákur's feature film, Touch (Snerting), has made the Best International Feature Film shortlist for the 2025 Oscars.
This is the second time a film directed by Baltasar Kormákur has reached the shortlist of the Oscar Academy in the international film category. His film, The Deep (Djúpið), made the shortlist in 2012.
Touch tells the story of Kristófer, a retired seventy-year-old widower. He embarks on a journey after the global pandemic has struck, hoping to find out what happened to his girlfriend who disappeared without a trace 50 years earlier. His journey takes him across half the globe, all the way to Japan.
Icelandic films have in total been on the shortlist four times. Last year, Hlynur Pálmason's film Godland (Volaða land) was on the list, and in 2021, Lamb (Dýrið), directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson, made the list. The first Icelandic feature film to receive an Oscar nomination is Fridrik Thór Fridriksson's Children of Nature in 1991.
The 2025 nominations will be announced in January. The Academy Awards ceremony will take place on March 3, 2025.
85 countries submitted films to the category this year, 15 of which made the shortlist for Best International Feature:
Brazil: I'm Still Here
Canada: Universal Language
Czech Republic: Waves
Denmark: The Girl with the Needle
France: Emilia Pérez
Germany: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Iceland: Touch
Ireland: Kneecap
Italy: Vermiglio
Latvia: Flow
Norway: Armand
Palestine: From Ground Zero
Senegal: Dahomey
Thailand: How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies
United Kingdom: Santosh