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My Life as a Zucchini
After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
Claude Barras
Casts & Crew
Gaspard Schlatter
Sixtine Murat
Paulin Jaccoud
Michel Vuillermoz
Raul Ribera
Estelle Hennard
Elliot Sanchez
Lou Wick
Brigitte Rosset
Natacha Koutchoumov
Monica Budde
Adrien Barazzone
Véronique Montel
Romane Cretegny
Evelyne Bouvier
Also Directed by Claude Barras
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Little bald Léon loves his grandfather. He loves the old man's bushy black beard, which seems endowed with magic powers.
Armand works on the assembly-line of a tinned pasta factory. One evening he opens up a tin of ravioli for dinner. Much to his surprise, a Genie jumps forth, promising to fulfill any two wishes.
Short film shown in Cannes.
A roads leads through a barren desert landscape. A car parks in front of a motel. A man with a box under his arm gets out and storms into room 69…
Kéria (11), a vivid indigenous girl, finds an orphaned baby orang-outan, Oshi in the jungle of Borneo. To keep him safe she brings him to a close-by reserve. But her ambitious father, working as a woodsman, cooperates with a poacher in order to steal the baby. Oshi should be a present to his company’s director. Kéria flees her home with Oshi in search of the protective wooded mountains. She tries to reunite with her beloved grandfather, one of the last hunter-gatherers. But the journey is filled with obstacles. Kéria finally needs to understand, the only way for Oshi to survive in the wilderness, is letting him go. "Savages!" is the story of a friendship larger than life.
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