Despite the Falling Snow is a 2016 British Cold War espionage film directed by Shamim Sarif, adapted from her novel of the same name.

[1] Starring Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Charles Dance, Antje Traue, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Thure Lindhardt and Anthony Head,[2] the film was released in the United Kingdom on 15 April 2016.

Gradually Sasha realises that his work at the Kremlin is worthless, and decides to defect during an official trip to the US.

His niece Lauren is an artist who is invited to exhibit in Moscow in the early 1990s, where she meets Marina, a journalist.

The website's consensus reads, "Despite the Falling Snow's slick production and appealing cast struggle to elevate a feeble script, resulting in a Cold War thriller that never raises the temperature.