Memoir of a Snail w/ I Want to Be Alone

Memoir of a Snail

Adam Elliot (Dir), 94 minutes, Australia, Western New York Premiere

A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs.

Grace, a young girl in 1970s Australia, begins collecting snails after her mother's death. She and her twin brother Gilbert live with their father Percy, an alcoholic former juggler and paraplegic, until he dies in his sleep and the twins are separated and sent to foster homes hundreds of miles away from each other.

Featuring the voices of Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana, Magda Szubanski, Dominique Pinon, Tony Armstrong, Nick Cave, and Jacki Weaver.

w/

I Want to Be Alone

Piper D. Charron (Dir), 4 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

Director Piper D. Charron in attendance.

After Lisa's headphones die on the subway, she must traverse her walk home with the sensory overload of the city’s natural soundscape.