Where Hands Touch
Throughout, Asante raises questions about bravery, conscience and, most of all, identity.
Where Hands Touch
WHERE HANDS TOUCH is a coming of age story set in the most brutal of times and places: 1944 Germany. Leyna (Amandla Stenberg), the 15-year-old daughter of a white German mother (Abbie Cornish) and a black African father, meets Lutz (George MacKay), a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father (Christopher Eccleston) is a prominent Nazi, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.
As Leyna’s mother strives to protect her from the horrors that she could face as a mixed-race German citizen, Leyna is forced to forge her own path as the war goes on and the Nazi’s increase their atrocities over the Jews and all dissidents. Can she find an ally in Lutz, himself battling a fate laid out before him that he is hesitant to embrace?
As Leyna’s mother strives to protect her from the horrors that she could face as a mixed-race German citizen, Leyna is forced to forge her own path as the war goes on and the Nazi’s increase their atrocities over the Jews and all dissidents. Can she find an ally in Lutz, himself battling a fate laid out before him that he is hesitant to embrace?
Genre
Drama,
Romance,
War,
Women and Film
Runtime
122
Language
English
Director
Amma Asante
Writer(s)
Amma Asante
Cast
Abbie Cornish,
Amandla Stenberg,
George MacKay,
Tom Sweet
FEATURED REVIEW
Stephen Saito, Moveable Fest
When the music swells for the first time in Amma Asante’s “Where Hands Touch,” it is to give the film’s star Amandla Stenberg an entrance befitting of a movie star, the way you might see Ingrid Bergman turn towards the camera in “Casablanca” for the first time, only in the case of Stenberg’s Leyna ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 9.14.18 - 9.20.18
Town Center 5 9.14.18 - 9.20.18
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