Touch Me Not
Competition 2018
ROU/DEU/CZE/BGR/FRA 2018
by: Adina Pintilie
Laura Benson
Touch Me Not
Competition 2018
ROU/DEU/CZE/BGR/FRA 2018
by: Adina Pintilie
Adina Pintilie
Feb 22, 2018Paul Dunca
The choreographer at the premiere.
Competition – Touch Me Not
Feb 22, 2018Irmena Chichikova
The actress at the premiere.
Competition – Touch Me Not
Feb 22, 2018Irmena Chichikova
Touch me not: The actress at the premiere.
Competition – Touch Me Not
Feb 22, 2018Tómas Lemarquis, Irmena Chichikova
The actors in the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Touch Me Not
Feb 22, 2018Grit Uhlemann, Christian Bayerlein
The actors in the Berlinale VIP Club.
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Feb 22, 2018Adina Pintilie
The director in the Berlinale VIP Club.
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Feb 22, 2018Seani Love, Irmena Chichikova, Bianca Oana
On the way to the Berlinale VIP Club.
Competition – Touch Me Not
Feb 22, 2018Berlinale Guest Book
The director's entry.
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Feb 22, 2018Christian Bayerlein
The actor at the Press Conference.
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Feb 22, 2018Irmena Chichikova
The actress at the Press Conference.
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Feb 22, 2018Film team
At the Photo Call.
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Feb 22, 2018Laura Benson, Adina Pintilie
The actress and the director at the Photo Call.
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Feb 22, 2018Laura Benson
The actress at the Photo Call.
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Feb 22, 2018Tómas Lemarquis
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Feb 22, 2018Adina Pintilie
The director at the premiere.
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Feb 22, 2018Irmena Chichikova
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Feb 22, 2018Christian Bayerlein, Grit Uhlemann
The actors on the Red Carpet.
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Feb 22, 2018Tómas Lemarquis, Adina Pintilie
The actor and the director in the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Touch Me Not
Feb 22, 2018Adina Pintilie, Laura Benson
The director and the actress in the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Touch Me Not
Feb 24, 2018Bianca Oana, Philippe Avril, Adina Pintilie, Tómas Lemarquis
At the Press Conference.
Competition – Touch Me Not – Golden Bear
Feb 24, 2018Adina Pintilie
The director and producer of the winning film at the Press Conference.
Competition – Touch Me Not – Golden Bear
Feb 24, 2018Golden Bear 2018
Competition – Touch Me Not – Golden Bear
Feb 24, 2018Adina Pintilie
Competition – Touch Me Not – Closing Gala – Golden Bear
Feb 24, 2018Adina Pintilie, Tom Tykwer, Dieter Kosslick
Competition – Touch Me Not – Closing Gala – Golden Bear
Feb 24, 2018The film team
Competition – Touch Me Not – Closing Gala – Golden Bear
Feb 24, 2018Adina Pintilie
At the Press Conference.
Competition – Touch Me Not – Golden Bear
Feb 24, 2018The film team
Competition – Touch Me Not – Closing Gala – Golden Bear
Feb 24, 2018Adina Pintilie, Bianca Oana, Philippe Avril
The producers at the Award Ceremony.
Competition – Touch Me Not – GWFF Best First Feature Award
Adina Pintilie
Laura Benson
Grit Uhlemann, Christian Bayerlein
Tómas Lemarquis
Hanna Hofmann, Seani Love, Irmena Chichikova
P. Avril (Producer), B. Oana (Assistant Director, Line Producer, Producer), I. Chichikova, S. Love, H. Hofmann, L. Benson (Actors), A. Pintilie (Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Producer), T. Lemarquis, C. Bayerlein, G. Uhlemann (Actors)
Moderation: Nikolaj Nikitin
Press Conference at full length‘Tell me how you loved me, so I understand how to love.’
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.
by
Adina Pintilie
Romania / Germany / Czech Republic / Bulgaria / France 2018
English, German
125’ · Colour
World premiere
Laura BensonTómas LemarquisChristian BayerleinGrit UhlemannHanna HofmannSeani LoveIrmena ChichikovaRainer SteffenGeorgi NaldzhievDirk Lange
This Romanian artist and director graduated from the Caragiale University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest in 2008. Her films have won several awards including the Zonta Prize at the 2013 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for Diary #2. Poised on the border between fiction, documentary and fine art, her work is characterised by a highly individual visual style, the courage to experiment with visual language and an uncompromising exploration of the human psyche. Since 2010 she has been the curator of the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF).
Filmography2007 Don't Get Me Wrong; medium length documentary 2008 Sandpit #186; short film 2010 Oxygen; medium length fiction film 2013 Diary #2; short film 2018 Touch Me Not
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018
Manekino Film
Doc & Film Internationalwww.docandfilm.com