Memoir of a Snail
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Winner of the Cristal Award for Best Feature, 2024 Annecy Festival
Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film, 2025 Golden Globes
The film will be preceded by the short film A Crab in the Pool
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
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 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. 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.
Adam Elliot
Adam Elliot is an independent animator and visual artist based in Melbourne Australia. His animated films and imagery are what he calls, Clayographies, clay animated biographies based on the bittersweet lives of his family and friends. He has created seven animated films including two feature films, Mary and Max (2009), and Memoir of a Snail (2024). His first feature film, Mary and Max, was included in IMDb’s Top 250 Films of all time. Popular on Netflix, the film is currently being developed into a Broadway Musical, and to date there have been six stage adaptations produced in Europe. His films have been voiced by some of the world’s leading actors, including, Sarah Snook, Jacki Weaver, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Geoffrey Rush, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana and Toni Collette. Viewed by millions of people around the world his works have participated in over a thousand film festivals and won over 100 awards, including the 2004 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Harvie Krumpet (2003).
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