The hero of this award-winning animated adventure is a 10-year-old boy named Courgette, all alone in this world after his father’s death. He ends up in a children’s home, where he meets other orphans with similar tragic stories. Frightened at first at this unusual and sometimes tough place, Courgette learns how to open up with time and finds true love and a new family at the home. My Life as a Courgette is an authentic and empathetic coming-of-age story, whose success is partly owed to its writer Céline Sciamma, known as the director of the trilogy Lilies, Tomboy and Girlhood.