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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Memories of a Snail won the award for best film at the Annecy Festival, and looks likely to achieve an Oscar nomination for best animated feature film, a situation that is nothing new for its director, the Australian Adam Elliot, who already won the Oscar for his animated short film Harvie Krumpet in 2004. On this occasion, Elliot tells us the story of Grace, a young woman whose miserable existence changes when she meets Pinky, a lively old woman.
Asked why he had taken so long to return to directing, he said that Memories of a Snail had been a laborious project, it took three years to write and find f inancing, and then came the shooting. An animated film with plasticine figures requires a lot of time. But what slowed them down the most was COVID; in Melbourne they had one of the longest lockdowns in all of Australia.
He acknowledged that as a young man, he had also felt the need to look for a shell to take refuge in, just like Grace did, but he stressed that this was an optimistic film. “My previous films were quite dark, but now I’m 52, I think we increasingly need films that reaffirm us in life. There is so much despair around us that I don’t see the need to delve into it in cinema as well.”
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