Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free. Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves.
Laura Benson
as Laura
Adina Pintilie
as Adina
Tómas Lemarquis
as Tudor
Christian Bayerlein
as Christian
Irmena Chichikova
as Mona
Grit Uhlemann
as Grit
Hanna Hofmann
as Hanna
Seani Love
as Seani
Rainer Steffen
as Stefan
Georgi Naldzhiev
as Male Escort
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...or perhaps just "Watch Me Not"? In theory this could have made for quite an interesting look at just how different people deal with intimacy - emotional and the more tactile variety. To that end we spend an over-long two hours in the company of "Laura" (Laura Benson) whose proclivities, attitudes...