Athens International Film Festival
aiff

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



        : International Competition

        CAREFREE DAYS | XIAO YAO YOU

        CAREFREE DAYS | XIAO YAO YOU

        28/09/2023, 19:15, ASTOR
        29/09/2023, 19:00, ASTY

        HOW TO HAVE SEX

        HOW TO HAVE SEX

        28/09/2023, 22:00, IDEAL
        30/09/2023, 21:30, DANAOS 2

        OPPONENT | MOTSTÅNDAREN

        OPPONENT | MOTSTÅNDAREN

        29/09/2023, 19.15, DANAOS 1
        30/09/2023, 22.00, ASTY

        HOARD

        HOARD

        29/09/2023, 22:00, IDEAL
        05/10/2023, 21:30, DANAOS 2

        TÓTEM

        TÓTEM

        30/09/2023, 20:30, IDEAL
        04/10/2023, 21:30, DANAOS 2

        MATRIA

        MATRIA

        30/09/2023, 22:00, ASTOR
        03/10/2023, 22:00, DANAOS 2

        ARTHUR & DIANA

        ARTHUR & DIANA

        01/10/2023, 17:00, ASTOR
        06/10/2023, 19:30, ASTY

        RICEBOY SLEEPS

        RICEBOY SLEEPS

        01/10/2023, 19:15, DANAOS 1
        05/10/2023, 17:00, IDEAL

        20,000 SPECIES OF BEES | 20.000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS

        20,000 SPECIES OF BEES | 20.000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS

        02/10/2023, 19:00, ASTOR
        05/10/2023, 19:15, ASTOR

        UNIVERSAL THEORY | DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM

        UNIVERSAL THEORY | DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM

        02/10/2023, 22:00, ASTOR
        03/10/2023, 19:30, ASTOR

        LOST COUNTRY

        LOST COUNTRY

        03/10/2023, 21:30, DANAOS 1
        05/10/2023, 17:00, ASTOR

        TEMPORARIES | RICHELIEU

        TEMPORARIES | RICHELIEU

        04/10/2023, 18:00, ASTOR
        06/10/2023, 22:00, ASTOR

        BITTEN | LA MORSURE

        BITTEN | LA MORSURE

        04/10/2023, 20:45, ASTY
        06/10/2023, 22:00, DANAOS 2

        COPENHAGEN DOES NOT EXIST | KØBENHAVN FINDES IKKE

        COPENHAGEN DOES NOT EXIST | KØBENHAVN FINDES IKKE

        04/10/2023, 22:00, DANAOS 1
        06/10/2023, 22:00, DANAOS 1

        OMEN | AUGURE

        OMEN | AUGURE

        05/10/2023, 22:00, ASTOR
        06/10/2023, 19:30, ASTOR

        AWARD-WINNING FILM SCREENING (TEMPORARIES | RICHELIEU)

        AWARD-WINNING FILM SCREENING (TEMPORARIES | RICHELIEU)

        08/10/2023, 22:00, DANAOS 1