Slow

Program:

Festival of festivals

Year:

2023

Country:

Lithuania, Spain, Sweden

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

108’

Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.

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Marija Kavtaradze

Born in 1991, film director and scriptwriter Marija Kavtaradze graduated from Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Film Directing studies in 2014. Marija’s debut feature film SUMMER SURVIVORS premiered at Toronto IFF in 2018 and did a solid career at the festivals, also sold to Italy, Albania, Latvia, etc. The movie achieved 26k admissions at the domestic box office, which made it the most appreciated independent Lithuanian film in 2019. Her debut film received 3 Lithuanian Film Academy awards.

Filmography: Summer Survivors (2018), Paskutinis zmogus, su kuriuo as kalbejau (2010)

Creative team

Director

Marija Kavtaradze

Screenplay

Marija Kavtaradzė

Camera

Laurynas Bareiša

Editing

Silvija Vilkaitė

Production design

Sigita Šimkūnaitė