A dancer and a sign language interpreter try to build something lasting in Slow, a 2023 drama from Lithuanian director Marija Kavtaradzė.

What is Slow about?

Elena works as a dancer, moving through the world with her body as her main language. Dovydas interprets sign language for a living, spending his days translating between two ways of communicating. When the two meet, an easy connection forms almost immediately, and the film settles into watching them figure out what kind of relationship they actually want to build together. Rather than rushing toward a familiar romantic arc, Slow stays with the couple as they negotiate what intimacy means on their own terms, letting conversation and hesitation carry as much weight as any single dramatic turn. The film was shot across Lithuania, Spain and Sweden, a co-production spread that matches its patient, unhurried pace.

About the cast

Greta Grinevičiūtė and Kęstutis Cicėnas lead as Elena and Dovydas, with Pijus Ganusauskas, Laima Akstinaitė, Vaiva Zymantaite, Mantas Barvicius, Rimantė Valiukaitė and Ugnė Šiaučiūnaitė filling out the supporting cast under Marija Kavtaradzė's direction.

Context & significance

Slow arrives from a wave of recent Baltic and Nordic dramas that favor close, character-driven storytelling over plot mechanics, and its Lithuania-Spain-Sweden co-production credits are typical of how mid-budget European art films now get financed and made across borders. Running 108 minutes, it belongs to the festival-circuit strand of relationship dramas that trust two performers to carry a film largely through dialogue and silence rather than incident.

Watching Slow on Ktime

Slow is available on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a way to follow this quiet European drama in their own language. The film's page can be read by anyone without logging in; watching it requires only a free K-Time account, in keeping with the platform's Farsi-first approach for Iranian audiences abroad who want smaller European festival titles alongside bigger studio releases, all in one place.