TOUCH wins the Tromsø Audience Award at TIFF 2025
The 35th edition of Tromsø International Film Festival is over, and the following Monday, the votes for this year’s audience award have been counted. The winner of the Tromsø Audience Award 2025 is Touch by Baltasar Kormákur.
Publisert 20.01.2025 — Sandra Aminda Indahl

Touch is a love story spanning decades and continents, exploring memory, time, loss, and love. A widower embarks on a journey to revisit a lost love from his youth. As he steps on the airplane in Reykjavik, we travel back, metaphorically speaking, in time with him. The film was part of the Film from the North-program at the festival.
- Baltasar Kormákur is a master storyteller, and here he has created yet another exquisite film. Touch is a beautiful love story that I can easily understand has won the hearts of our audience, says Program Director for Films from the North Astrid Aure.
The audience award is one of the festival’s highly esteemed awards and is indicative of what types of films resonate the most with the audience. The film is marked by Kormákur’s sensitive direction and strong acting performances.
For the second time, Kormákur wins the Tromsø Audience Award, the first being in 2003 for his film The Sea.

- It is exciting that Kormákur wins the audience award for the second time, and there is no doubt that Icelandic films are very popular at TIFF. We know a lot of our audience is looking for the Icelandic films in the program each year, and some even try to specifically watch all of the films from Iceland at the festival, says Festival Director Lisa Hoen.
Touch is the fifth Icelandic film that wins the Tromsø Audience Award, and Kormákur is one of two Icelandic filmmakers that has won the award twice.
Touch has its Norwegian distribution with Universal Studios but currently has no schedules theatrical release.