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‘Memoir of a Snail,’ by Oscar Winner Adam Elliot, Set to Open Melbourne Film Festival
Stop motion animation, ‘Memoir of a Snail’ by Oscar-winner Adam Elliot is set to open the Melbourne International Film Festival.
These include Cannes Critics’ Week award winner “Blue Sun Palace”; double Sundance-winning semi biographical directorial debut “Didi,” by Sean Wang; Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man,” which earned Sebastian Stan the acting prize in Berlin; Australian-produced Imax presentation “Fungi: Web of Life”; Rooney Mara-starring “La Cocina”; Frederick Wiseman’s restaurant documentary “Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros”; Berlin prize-winner “My Favourite Cake”; Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City”; and Jodi Wille’s “Welcome Space Brothers.” [It is] a handmade stop-motion film lovingly crafted by a team of local artists.” The voice cast includes Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana, Tony Armstrong, Nick Cave and Jacki Weaver. In Natalie Bailey’s “Audrey” a soap opera has-been and self-proclaimed Mother of the Year, portrayed by Jackie van Beek (“The Breaker Upperers”) tries to take another stab at stardom by stealing the identity of her comatose teenage daughter.
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