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Dolls Don't Cry (2017)

Dolls Don't Cry poster
Original title
Toutes les poupées ne pleurent pas
Directed by
Frédérick Tremblay
Genre
animation
Country
Canada
Runtime
20 min
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman work meticulously as stop-motion animators. The film shows their careful process of making a short animated film.

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What happens

Dolls Don't Cry (French: Toutes les poupées ne pleurent pas) is a 2017 Canadian stop-motion animated short film directed by Frédérick Tremblay. The film is about animators, a man and a woman, who are painstakingly making a stop-motion animated film. The film won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Quebec City Film Festival, and the Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018. The short film is available to watch on Tremblay's official Vimeo channel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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