'My Life as a Courgette' trivia and fun facts

Is in the San Sebastián International Film Festival in the 'Pearls' section.

Oscars

Is Switzerland's choice for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

A new approach

Director, Claude Barras, says he wanted to make a movie set on an orphanage that didn't portray the place as the tradicional hell it usually is in movies and books.

It's the most awarded animated film of 2016.