From Academy Award-winning director Adam Elliot (Mary and Max, 2009), Memoir of a Snail is a potent, whimsical, and hopeful tearjerker about life’s underdogs. Grace Pudel (Sarah Snook from Succession) is a lonely oddball with a ‘glass half full’ outlook, obsessed with collecting ornamental snails and reading. Her protective twin brother, Gilbert, is the ‘glass half empty’ type, preferring dour books and eating fire. When their sole remaining parent, a disabled alcoholic, dies, they are separated and forced into foster homes. Grace spirals into anxiety and angst after the separation. Inspiration eventually comes in the form of Pinky, an eccentric, tap-dancing, pinky-less elderly lady who smokes cigars in the rain. Through Pinky, Grace begins to find her confidence and true self.
Memoir of a Snail is part of the Feature Film Competition at the 2024 Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF). This screening is presented in partnership with the Australian High Commission Canada.
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