Recently the nominees for the Best Animated Feature Oscar have presented us with some surprises. This year Pixar’s popular “Finding Dory” was not nominated but a movie that almost no one had heard of was: “My Life as a Zuccini,” a French film coming to US theaters with the voices of Will Forte, Nick Offerman, Ellen Page and Amy Sedaris.

After his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home, filled with other orphans his age. At first he struggles to find his place in this at times strange and hostile environment. But with Raymond’s help and his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love, as he searches for a new family of his own.