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The Girl Who Cried Pearls

2025 · Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski · 17m 37s

The Girl Who Cried Pearls (French: La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles) is a 2025 Canadian animated short film, directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski and released in 2025. Made through stop-motion animation, the film centers on a young boy who meets and falls in love with a girl who secretly weeps pearls at night. The initial inspiration for the film came during the production of the duo's 2007 short film Madame Tutli-Putli, when a prop necklace unexpectedly fell apart, scattering pearls across the set, as they were filming the climactic scene. The Girl Who Cried Pearls was…
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