Memoiren einer Schnecke

In the organizer's words:

• AU 2024
• 94 min
• Director: Adam Elliot
• FSK: from 12 years
• German dubbing, Wednesdays: original version with German subtitles (OmU)

Screenings:

• Thu, July 24, 2025 - Wed, July 30, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.
• Thu, July 31, 2025 - Wed, August 6, 2025 at 5:00 pm

In MEMOIRS OF A SNAIL, his new clay animation film for adults, Elliot tells a sensitive, melancholy and sometimes gloomy, but also hopeful and humorous story about the ups and downs of life.

Grace Pudel, an enthusiastic snail collector and romance reader, looks back and tells the story of a life that has not always been kind to her. After the death of their mother, Grace and her twin brother Gilbert grow up with their paraplegic, alcoholic father. When he also dies unexpectedly, the siblings are separated from each other and placed in different foster families. While Gilbert is exposed to the cruelties of a fanatically religious family on the other side of Australia, Grace withdraws more and more into herself - just like her beloved snails. It is only through her friendship with Pinky, an eccentric older lady full of joie de vivre, that she regains hope and realizes how beautiful life can be despite all its hardships.