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‘My Life as a Zucchini’ Director Claude Barras to Be Honored by Locarno Film Festival
Swiss animator Claude Barras ('My Life as a Zucchini') will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival
Barras’ beloved stop-motion film “Life as a Zucchini,” about an orphaned boy who lives in a foster home, played at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2016, and went on to be nominated for best animated feature at the Oscars and secured distribution in over 50 territories. Barras’ more recent work “Sauvages,” about an orangutan fighting to save the forests of Borneo with his friends, will travel to Locarno after premiering positively at Cannes earlier this month. Nazzaro went on to praise Barras for being a “proponent of a civil and committed cinema whose work – both avant-garde and popular – has fostered a fertile intergenerational dialogue, placing the key nodes of our relationship with the world and the environment at the center of his actions.”
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