Where Hands Touch
2018 film directed by Amma Asante / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Where Hands Touch is a 2018 romantic war drama film written and directed by Amma Asante and starring Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston, and Tom Sweet. It tells a fictional story of Leyna (Stenberg), a teenage girl under threat because of her mixed heritage while surviving in Nazi Germany. The film is based on historical record of the persecution of black people in Nazi Germany.
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Directed by | Amma Asante |
Written by | Amma Asante |
Produced by | Charlie Hanson |
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Cinematography | Remi Adefarasin |
Edited by | Steve Singleton |
Music by | Anne Chmelewsky |
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Distributed by | Shear Entertainment |
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Running time | 122 minutes[1] |
Countries | United Kingdom Belgium Ireland Canada |
Language | English |
Box office | $128,269[2] |
The film is a British, Belgian, Canadian, and Irish co-production. Principal photography on the film began in November 2016 in Belgium and lasted for a month, wrapping up in December 2016.
Where Hands Touch premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2018. It was released theatrically in the United States on 14 September 2018 by Vertical Entertainment. It received mixed reviews, with praise directed at Stenberg's performance, and criticism toward its screenplay.