SLOW

LITHUANIA, SPAIN, SWEDEN | 2023 | COLOR | DCP | 108’ | LITHUANIAN

A young dance teacher thinks she has found the ideal lover, and partner possibly, in a charming sign language interpreter. But he quickly announces to her that he is asexual. This problematic condition makes things rather hard between them, though they try ceaselessly to make it work, since the match is obvious. And thus commences a bittersweet story of an unusual love story, of a kind new to cinema. The two leading performances share incredible chemistry, the direction showers them with love and compassion, the script proves disarmingly tender, and all result in an utterly romantic film that Lithuania suggests for next year’s International Oscar and Sundance Film Festival hands World Cinema Directing Award. L.K.

DIRECTOR: Marija Kavtaradzė
SCREENWRITER: Marija Kavtaradzė
DoP: Laurynas Bareiša
MUSIC: Irya Gmeyner
EDITOR: Silvija Vilkaitė
PRINCIPAL CAST: Greta Grinevičiūtė, Kęstutis Cicėnas, Pijus Ganusauskas, Laima Akstinaitė, Vaiva Zymantaite, Mantas Barvicius, Rimantė Valiukaitė, Ugnė Šiaučiūnaitė, Mantas Stabacinskas

MARIJA KAVTARADZĖ
Lithuanian writer/director, born in 1991. She studied Film Directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her film debut, screened also at the 24th AIFF, won three awards from the Lithuanian Film Academy.

FILMOGRAPHY
2023 Slow
2018 Summer Survivors