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Memoir of a Snail

Life can only be understood backwards, but we have to live it forwards.

8.1(858)20241h 34m6

Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.

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Status
Released
Budget
$4.4M
Box office
$7
Language
English
  • depression
  • difficult childhood
  • death of father
  • stop motion
  • foster family
  • adult animation
  • death in childbirth
  • broken family
  • claymation
  • brother sister relationship
  • snail
  • adoring

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Adam Elliot

Produced in

Australia

Where to watch

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereFantastic Fest21 Sept 2024
    • PremiereMill Valley Film Festival12 Oct 2024
    • PremiereOrcas Island Film Festival18 Oct 2024
    • PremiereAnimation Is Film Festival / Montclair Film Festival20 Oct 2024
    • TheatricalR25 Oct 2024
    • PremiereVirginia Film Festival31 Oct 2024
    • Digital / OTTR26 Nov 2024
    • PremiereMoMA - The Contenders19 Dec 2024
    • Digital / OTTRHulu29 Jul 2025
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereBFI London Film Festival10 Oct 2024
    • PremiereManchester Animation Festival12 Nov 2024
    • Theatrical1514 Feb 2025
    • Digital / OTT152 Jun 2025
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival8 Aug 2024
    • PremiereDarwin International Film Festival22 Sept 2024
    • PremiereMSydney, New South Wales28 Sept 2024
    • TheatricalM17 Oct 2024
    • Digital / OTTM17 Dec 2024
    • PhysicalM8 Jan 2025
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereCalgary International Film Festival22 Sept 2024
    • PremiereOttawa International Animation Festival27 Sept 2024
    • Theatrical (limited)15 Nov 2024
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical+1320 Mar 2025
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical24 Jan 2025
  • BoliviaBO

    • Theatrical13 Mar 2025
  • BrazilBR

    • PremiereSão Paulo International Film Festival17 Oct 2024
    • Theatrical145 Jun 2025
    • Digital / OTT1421 Jul 2025
  • ChileCL

    • Theatrical1413 Mar 2025
  • ChinaCN

    • PremiereAranya Waves Film Festival9 Sept 2024
    • PremiereHainan Island International Film Festival5 Dec 2024
    • Theatrical5 Sept 2025
    • Digital / OTT12 Feb 2026
  • ColombiaCO

    • Theatrical20 Mar 2025
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereTPAnnecy International Animation Film Festival10 Jun 2024
    • PremiereTPL'Etrange Festival Clermont-Ferrand6 Nov 2024
    • TheatricalTP15 Jan 2025
    • PremiereTPFestival International du Film d'Animation de Metz8 Feb 2025
    • TVTPCiné+ OCS3 Sept 2025

Frequently asked questions

Memoir of a Snail was released on 17 October 2024.

Audience reviews

5
  • G

    good.film

    10/16/2024

    It feels great to laugh straight after you’ve just welled up. The characters in Memoir of a Snail, the new animated tale from Academy Award winner Adam Elliot, feel authentically real to us - and even though Elliot includes jokes, he doesn’t joke ABOUT them. He lays them bare to us with respect, and imbues his odd menagerie with… well, with dignity. Which is a funny thing to say about something with plasticin…

  • C

    Chris Sawin

    11/17/2024

    9/10

    Australian animator and filmmaker Adam Elliot’s last full-length feature film was Mary and Max (2009). Memoir of a Snail is narrated and told from the point of view of Grace Pudel (Sarah Snook). Grace details her life story that finds humor and sentimentality in the face of depression, shortcomings, and letdowns. There are two people in the world that Grace feels comfortable with: her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Sm…

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    CinemaSerf

    2/19/2025

    7/10

    When an elderly lady gives out her last breath, and yells something about potatoes, we realise that “Grace” is now on her own. She’s a middle aged woman wearing a knitted hat with two big eyes poking from stalks on the top. She’s what you might call a glass half empty sort of person, and as she releases her pet snail “Sylvia” from her jar into the vegetable garden she begins to regale us with the story of just how sh…

  • L

    Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

    4/4/2025

    It’s been a long time since I’ve been moved by a piece of cinema as much as I was with “Memoir of a Snail,” a dark, profound, and highly personal stop-motion film from writer / director Adam Elliot . This work of animation confirms the power of the medium as a vessel for mature, deeply philosophical storytelling, and it’s just a beautiful film from start to finish. Crafted with painstaking detail, the film is a bi…

  • J

    JJ Rosales

    10/24/2026

    6/10

    I mean yes but no.. the medium very much fits the story and would not have succeeded otherwise.  I really need to stop watching movies in my room bc I do not pay attention whatsoever… theaters are way more engaging.

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