UKAFF: Touché + Q&A

Touché is a British comedy-drama from debut writer-director-star Parvinder Shergill. It follows Deep (Parvinder Shergill), a British South Asian woman who is stuck in a rut and decides to shake up her life by taking up the unlikely sport of fencing. At her local club she clashes with Kate (Kayleigh-Paige Rees), a highly skilled but guarded fencer who is reluctant to accept a newcomer into the fold, creating tension on and off the piste. Deep gradually forms an unexpected friendship with Tom (Matthew Lewis), another club member whose easy charm hides a personal secret, and the film follows how these three navigate ambition, identity and belonging through the absurdities and small victories of an amateur fencing world.