Culture.ee seeking submissions for new children's culture column
Culture.ee is seeking children up to 16 years of age to write submissions for the online portal's newly-launched children's culture column.
"Column of a Young Culture Lover" was launched on March 23rd with a submission in which Mirjam, 11, wrote about the film "My Life as a Zucchini."
The trilingual Estonian-English-Russian online culture portal, a project of the Estonian Institute, is seeking children up to 16 years of age who are willing to participate in cultural events and write about them for the column afterward.
Interested parties — or their parents — can get in touch via email at [email protected].
Column of a Young Culture Lover: "My Life as a Zucchini"
Mirjam, 11
I went to see the film "My Life as a Zucchini." It talked about a boy named Zucchini. Actually, that was his nickname. So, Zucchini was taken to an orphanage as I think he had accidentally killed his mother. I didn't really understand whether he had killed his mother or not. Anyway, in the orphanage, he made many new friends. One of them was the "boss," or at least that’s what he called himself. In the beginning, he seemed to be a bad character, but it turned out later that he wasn't. There was also a policeman who brought Zucchini to the orphanage. The policeman was lonely and came to talk to Zucchini in the orphanage. Then a new girl named Camille came to the orphanage who became very good friends with Zucchini.
It was a rather sad, but at the same time a cheerful film, which was made in a very cool way. I've seen similar films, but this was somehow different. For example, the expressions and skin colors of people were very interesting. What I liked the most about the film was that in some places the voices of birds had been used.
As I have watched many much longer films, this seemed so short to me that I did not have much time to think, although it actually gave me a lot of food for thought. Before watching it, I thought it would be a bit more cheerful or different, because it is a children's film after all. But there were many parts in the film which children may not understand. Some places were even quite tough.
My favorite was the main character, Zucchini. If I were Zucchini, I would not be so cheerful and could not be so relaxed and okay with everything. I know that everything can be forgotten, but it would have been pretty horrible. But itäs nice that it didn't just show children squatting in the corner and thinking about their dark past.
Before the screening, a discussion took place with three people who talked about the film a little. One of them was Karin Rask, who voiced to the female character. All three said normal things that I agree with — for example, that this film was very skilfully made.
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The children's culture column submission on "My Life as a Zucchini" originally appeared on culture.ee.
Editor: Aili Vahtla