Lithuanian director wins award at Sundance Film Festival

Lithuanian director Marija Kavtaradzė has won the best director’s award at the Sundance Film Festival for her film Slow (Tu man nieko neprimeni). This is her second feature film after Summer Survivors (Išgyventi vasarą) released in 2018.

The 2023 movie Slow is about a romantic relationship between a contemporary dancer Elena who is teaching a class to deaf youth and a sign language interpreter Dovydas assigned to the class.