My Life As A Zucchini (France)

Director Claude Barras

2017 Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature Film

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After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

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Date: Friday, May 25

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: Edison Theatre

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$12

Cartoons from East Germany with Live English Dubbing by Flula Borg

Saturday Morning Indie Cartoons

The DEFA Studio for Animation Film was founded in Dresden, East Germany, in 1955. Over the next two decades, the state-owned studio became one of the most modern animation centers in Europe. By the time it closed its doors in 1992, it had produced almost 2000 animation films for cinemas and television and these spanned all classic animation techniques, including cartoons, silhouette and puppet films, shadow plays, claymation and stop-motion animation. Representing a high level of craftsmanship and creativity, DEFA’s animation films fascinated national and international cinema and television audiences and were shown at film festivals all over the world.

For the last 25 years, the German Institute for Animated Film (DIAF) in Dresden and the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have been fostering awareness and distribution of this unique collection of animated films.

In celebration of this silver anniversary, the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival is presenting a retrospective devoted to the legacy of East German animation. Seven selected shorts, produced by the first generation of directors at the DEFA Studio for Animation Film, give a taste of the fantastic, magical world of animated films from a vanished country.

Flula Borg is a German actor, comedian, musician, and YouTube personality. Borg has appeared in several feature films, including Pitch Perfect 2, and a number of popular TV shows. He has collaborated with both well-known YouTubers, including Rhett and Link, Miranda Sings, Smosh, Jacksfilms, and many more, and mainstream celebrities such as Sir Mix-A-Lot, RZA, and Dirk Nowitzki. In 2015, he was named one of The Hollywood Reporter's Top 25 Digital Stars as well as one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch.

All screenings are North American Premieres.

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Date: Saturday, May 26

Time:  9:30 am

Location: USFS

$12