My Life as a Zucchini

Date

Hour

Place

04/08

21:00

THE SILVER STAR CINEMA

DESCRIPTION

This film, aimed at adults and children, inspired by The 400 Blows by François Truffaut, was based on an autobiographical novel by Gilles Paris. It is a puppet animation telling a story of nine‑year‑old Icar nicknamed Zucchini. When the boy is sent to an orphanage, he meets children who are much like him: abandoned or hurt by adults. Nothing is black and white here. The little inhabitants’ naivety goes hand in hand with their prematurely gained wisdom, and their family tragedies give rise to real friendships. The authors of the film arouse laughter and tears, yet the child point of view seems to alleviate subjects which tend to be difficult to discuss.

AWARDS

2017 Academy Awards — nominated for Best Animated Feature
2017 Golden Globes — nominated for Best Animated Feature Film
2017 César — nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay (Céline Sciamma)
2016 European Film Awards — Best Animated Feature
2016 European Parliament LUX Film Prize – nominated to the LUX Film Prize
2016 Warsaw Film Festival — Audience Award

DIRECTOR

Claude Barras (1973) A Swiss film director. Graduate of animation and computer graphics studies at École Emile Cohl in Lyon and anthropology and digital animation at École Cantonale d’Art in Lausanne. By the time he made his full-length debut, My Life as a Zucchini, an animation feature presented at Cannes in 2016 and nominated to Academy Award the next year, his short films were screened at many festivals around the world.

FILMOGRAPHY