Touch Me Not

Tell me how you loved me, so I know how to love

Directed by Adina Pintilie

Produced by Manekino Film, Rohfilm

A deeply introspective, formally experimental documentary-drama that uses intimate portraiture to explore how people navigate fear, desire, and the possibility of genuine human connection.

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.