Director: Adam Elliot
Grace Pudel collects snails, secondhand romance paperbacks, and guinea pigs the way other people collect regrets. Memoir of a Snail (2024), from stop-motion filmmaker Adam Elliot, turns her cluttered, lonely world into something oddly tender.
What is Memoir of a Snail about?
Told as a look back over one woman's life, the film follows Grace from a childhood shaped by an unconventional family into an adulthood spent hoarding small comforts against a world that keeps taking things away from her. Snails become her quiet obsession, a symbol of carrying a home on your back when nothing else feels permanent. As she narrates her own story, the film moves between wry humor and genuine sadness, tracking how she copes with separation, loss, and the slow work of finding people worth trusting. Elliot's clay-animation style gives every frame a handmade texture, matching the melancholy of a story about someone who keeps building shells for herself.
Cast & crew
Sarah Snook voices Grace, with a cast including Eric Bana, Jacki Weaver, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Dominique Pinon, Magda Szubanski, Paul Capsis, and Tony Armstrong. Adam Elliot directs.
Context & significance
An Australian stop-motion feature released in 2024, Memoir of a Snail comes from an Academy Award-winning animator known for handcrafted, character-driven storytelling. At 95 minutes, it's a compact but emotionally dense film, closer to an illustrated novel than a typical animated feature.
Where & how to watch
Memoir of a Snail streams on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available, so viewers can choose whichever format suits them. The page itself is free to explore without any login; watching the full film requires signing into a K-Time account. K-Time's interface and suggestions are shaped around Farsi-speaking viewers across the diaspora.