The winners of the César Awards, France’s national film award, were announced at a ceremony in Paris last night.
Claude Barras’ My Life As A Zucchini won the César for best animated feature. The film’s screenwriter Céline Sciamma also won for best adapted screenplay, a unique feat for an animated feature.
While Zucchini may be short in length (just 66 minutes) and small in budget (around US$8 million), it’s a wonderfully big-hearted film that hits all the right emotional notes–and manages to do so in an authentic way.