Marija Kavtaradzė won Best Director at Sundance with this tender, nuanced film, shot on sensuous 16mm. Attuned to the tentative movements of its magnetic performers, Slow is a different kind of love story—one that unravels sex from intimacy and hazards a newly passionate picture of attraction.

The coming together and moving apart of two grown sisters is a danse macabre in Lithuanian director Laurynas Bareiša’s lovingly choreographed second film. An exploration of spreading grief and the distortions it performs on time and memory, this poignant family portrait sifts the past for answers.