'My Life as a Courgette' trivia and fun facts

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.

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