Ma vie de courgette

When Icare, nicknamed Courgette, loses his mother in an accident, he is taken to an orphanage by a policeman called Raymond. There, he gets acquainted with the other children, Simon, Ahmed, Jujube, Alice and Béatrice, who have not had it easy. One day Camille arrives at the orphanage.

Director: Claude Barras (Suisse/France, 2015)
Screenplay: Céline Sciamma, Germano Zullo, Claude Barras, Morgan Navarro
Based on the novel "Autobiographie d'une courgette" by Gilles Paris
Genre: comedy-drama
Awards: César for the Best Animated Film and César for the Best Adaptation (France, 2017), three prizes at the Quartz Film Awards (Best Film, Best Soundtrack, Special Prize) (Switzerland, 2017), Best Children's Film at the Berlin Film Festival (Germany, 2017), Lumières Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Animated Film (France, 2017)