My Life as a Courgette (; also titled My Life as a Zucchini in North America and Australia) is a 2016 stop-motion animated comedy-drama film directed by Claude Barras, and co-written by Céline Sciamma. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

Set in Switzerland, Icare lives with his mother, Mama Lala, who has become an alcoholic and physically abusive towards him after Icare's father, Papa Lele, abandoned their family. One day when his mother comes after him in a drunken rage, Icare accidentally pushes her down the stairs when he closes the attic door on her, causing her death. Later on, Icare makes a deposition to Police Officer Raymond. He informs him that he prefers to be called "Courgette"-("Zucchini" in the American English version), his mother's nickname for him. As mementos, he keeps one of his mother's beer cans and a kite he made with a drawing of his father as a superhero.

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