The Slow Man and His Raft

(2026)

★ 9 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2026

Runtime: 182 мин

Country: India

Director: Pradipta Bhattacharyya

Cast: Amit Saha, Ritwick Chakraborty, Priyanka Sarkar, Aparajita Ghosh Das, Satakshi Nandy, Sayan Ghosh, Soham Maitra, Kaushik Roy, Chanchal Kundu, Basudeb Haldar

Plot

Set in rural Bengal, Pradipta Bhattacharyya’s contemplative drama about the human condition, The Slow Man and His Raft, centres on Nadhar, a motion-impaired, middle-aged man, “slower than a sloth”, who is swept into a touring circus following the death of his caregiving mother. Nadhar is something of a relic, a slow man stranded in a frantic, productive society. For those around him, his slowness can at best serve as a derisory spectacle. An expansive meditation on human nature, slowness and being profoundly out of step with the world.