The White Snail

The White Snail 

Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter,  Austria, Germany, 2025, 115′ 

Physicality, beauty, death, and love through the eyes of a girl who dreams of a modelling career and a boy who works in a morgue while pouring his inner world—which he rarely shares with others—into his paintings.

A Belarusian model dreaming of a career in China finds herself unexpectedly drawn to a reclusive night-shift worker at a morgue. Their connection begins with a chance encounter: again and again, Masha is drawn to the morgue. Under false pretenses, she finally gets inside. But it’s not the morgue itself – it’s the moment the mysterious Misha steps into her life that turns everything upside down. Between two seemingly different outsiders, a maelstrom of mutual attraction and shy desire evolves. 

»The film is based on the real lives of Masha and Misha, who make their acting debut in White Snail. The screenplay is deeply rooted in their personal biographies. When we first met them ten years ago, it became clear that they would challenge each other, provoke one another, and set each other in motion – turning their lives upside down.« Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter

Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter are a filmmaking duo, also the founders of Raumzeitfilm, under which they independently produce their films. They began collaborating while studying film and have since made three feature films: the documentaries Space Dogs (2019) and Dreaming Dogs (2024) and the fiction film The White Snail (2025). All of their projects are based on years of detailed research dedicated to the social and psychological complexities of modernity.

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In collaboration with the Kino Otok – Isola Cinema Festival and UL AGRFT, with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum.