MEMOIR OF A SNAIL

ANIMATION | ENGLISH | 94 MIN

Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life. From Academy Award-winning® animation writer and director Adam Elliot, Memoir of a Snail is a poignant, heartfelt, hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.

DIRECTOR Adam Elliot
CAST Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana, Nick Cave
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION Australia

London Film Festival, October 2024
UK Premiere and Q&A with director Adam Elliot
Book tickets here

SCREENINGS + EVENTS

★★★★
“Adam Elliot’s stop-motion animation is brilliantly bleak”

— The Observer

★★★★
“Memoir of a Snail is Elliot’s most ambitious project yet”

— The Times

FESTIVALS + AWARDS

Academy Awards 2025
Nominee: Best Animation

BFI London Film Festival
Winner: Best Film