My Life as a Courgette is a stop–motion animation feature film, a tender and poetic coming–of–age story. After his mother’s sudden death, a 9–year–old boy nicknamed Courgette is befriended by a kind–hearted police officer, Raymond, who accompanies the boy to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. Courgette struggles at first to find his place in this strange, at times hostile, environment. Yet with Raymond’s help and his newfound friends, he eventually learns to trust, finds true love and at last a new family of his own. “I wanted to adapt Gilles Paris’ book because I wanted to make a film about children that addresses maltreatment of children and remedies for abuse in today’s world; an entertaining film that makes you laugh and cry, but especially a firmly committed film that happens in the here and now and tells you about the strength of resilience amongst a group of friends, advocating empathy, comradery, sharing, and tolerance,” said the director.