I Lost My Body (French: J'ai perdu mon corps) is a 2019 French adult animated fantasy drama film directed by Jérémy Clapin, based on the novel Happy Hand by Guillaume Laurant. It premiered in the Critics' Week section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize, becoming the first animated film to do so in the section's history. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards.
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Plot
A severed hand escapes from a refrigerator in a laboratory and begins a journey across the suburbs of Paris to reunite with its body, that of a young man named Naoufel. His story is told via flashbacks.
As a boy in Morocco, Naoufel aspires to be a pianist and an astronaut and records his day-to-day life on a tape recorder. While riding in a car with his parents, he distracts his father while he is driving, causing a crash. Naoufel survives, but both of his parents are killed. He is forced to live in France with his emotionally distant uncle and his crude cousin.
As a young man, Naoufel works as a pizza deliveryman, often criticized by his boss for being late. On one occasion, Naoufel delivers a pizza to a young woman, Gabrielle, at her apartment block. They never see each other, as Naoufel is unable to get through the lobby's malfunctioning security door, but they have a conversation through the intercom, and Naoufel becomes infatuated with her.
