Red Snow
Details
In Finland, sixteen-year-old emo teen Johanna dreams of a glittering twilight vampire prince. What she gets instead is Martti — a balding, beer-bellied 49-year-old bloodsucker who slips into a santa suit to gain entry to homes and devour entire families. When Johanna crosses paths with Martti on Christmas Eve, she thinks her dark fairy tale has come true. But instead of eternal romance, she finds herself trapped in a horrific and bloody nightmare of aging masculinity, family trauma, and festive slaughter. By morning, the snow will turn red.
DIRECTOR: Ilja Rautsi
SCRIPTWRITER: Ilja Rautsi
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kerttu Hakkarainen
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Tiiu-Ann Pello
COSTUME DESIGN: Jaanus Vahtra
EDITING: Eric Bäckström
SOUND DESIGN: Karri Niinivaara
CO-PRODUCERS: Ivo Felt / Allfilm, Peter Krupenin / Hobab
PRODUCERS: Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Bufo
SALES: Charades
Director
Ilja Rautsi
Ilja Rautsi is a screenwriter and a director, specializing in genre films that use the genre to express the lead character’s emotional turmoil. His latest writing works include the animated feature Fleak (2025), the cyberpunk comedy for kids, Snot and Splash (2023), the Sundance horror breakout Hatching (2022) and the feature adaptation of Emmi Itäranta’s award-winning scifi novel Memory of Water (2022). Ilja wrote and directed the short horror comedies Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre (2018) and Night of the Living Dicks (2021), both winning several awards at festivals like Fantastic Fest, Palm Springs, Neuchâtel and BIFAN.
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