White Snail wins the Arthouse Cinema Award at Sarajevo Film Festival • CICAE

At the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, the film White Snail by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter received the Arthouse Cinema Award by the CICAE jury.

The jury, formed by Alexander Omar Lang (Kino Moviemento, Berlin, Germany), Sylvie da Rocha (Le Zola, Villeurbanne, France), and Diego Ginartes Rodríguez (Helsinki International Film Festival - Love and Anarchy, Helsinki. Finland), stated as following:

"A film that thoughtfully represents heavy subjects like vulnerability, mortality, spirituality and the evanescence of the human being through the lens of tenderness. An equilibrium is achieved where light can be found amidst darkness. Deeply rooted in reality as the characters radiate a universal mysticism. We are proud to present the CICAE/Art House Cinema Award to the film, White Snail, hoping that it reaches more audiences worldwide"

Dreaming of a career in China, a Belarusian model finds herself drawn to a mysterious loner who works the night shift at a morgue. Their encounter disturbs her senses of body, beauty, and mortality. The fragile love story of two outsiders who turn each other’s worlds upside down and discover that they are not alone.

Directed by: Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter

Written by: Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter

Cinematographer: Mikhail Khursevich

Editing: Stephan Bechinger

Music by: John Gürtler, Jan Miserre

Cast: Marya Imbro, Mikhail Senkov, Olga Reptuh, Andrei Sauchanka

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The CICAE Arthouse Cinema Award was conceived as an impetus for a film to have a wider recognition as a work of art and to stand as a mark of quality for cinema-goers and cinephiles.