My Life as a Zucchini

My Life as a Zucchini, the French-Swiss stop-motion film about a boy who goes to live at an orphanage that’s been nominated for a Best Animated Feature Oscar this year, is coming to U.S. theaters with our own English-language dub. The trailer for the new version features the voice talents of Will Forte, Ellen Page, Nick Offerman, and Amy Sedaris, and today the film has just released a new clip showing us how young Zucchini, as he prefers to be called, ended up at the orphanage in the first place.

Foreign films have historically done pretty well in the Best Animated Feature category at the Academy Awards, with at least one import usually squeezing into the nominations alongside the latest pictures from Disney or Pixar. Last year included Brazil’s Boy and the World as well as Japan’s When Marnie Was There, and while the likes of Kubo and the Two Strings, Moana, Finding Dory and Zootopia have all but sewn up their nominations for the 2017 ceremony (check back on the 24th to find out!), that leaves room for one wild card. It could be The Red Turtle, the latest animated film with a Studio Ghibli pedigree, or it could be a poignant and sweet little Swiss picture My Life as a Zucchini.