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A young orphan finds friends in the movie featured in today's "Trailer of the Day" for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Claude Barras' stop-motion animated story "My Life as a Zucchini" arrives at Sundance with acclaim trailing it. It showed at Cannes and Toronto film festivals, is Switzerland's official entry in the foreign-language category of the Academy Awards, and was nominated for a Golden Globe (losing out in the Animated Film category to "Zootopia").
Zucchini, or Courgette, is a little boy who, after the death of his single mother, is taken to live in a foster-care facility. He finds making friends difficult, though he gets help there from a kindly police officer, Raymond.
The trailer for "My Life as a Zucchini" is in French with English subtitles, but Sundance will be showing the world premiere of the English-language version, which includes the voices of Will Forte, Nick Offerman, Ellen Page and Amy Sedaris.
"My Life as a Zucchini" will screen in the Kids section of the Sundance Film Festival, at the following times and venues:
• Saturday, Jan. 21, 3 p.m., Salt Lake City Library Theatre.
• Sunday, Jan. 22, 12:30 p.m., Redstone Cinema 1, Park City.
• Saturday, Jan. 28, 12:30 p.m., Redstone Cinema 1, Park City.
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival runs Jan. 19-29 in Park City and at venues in Salt Lake City and the Sundance resort in Provo Canyon.