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...