Underplayed Gems

Junk Girl (2014)

Junk Girl poster
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Iran
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How it feels

This short film adapts a poem by Tim Burton about a girl made of junk. It follows her lonely existence in a world that rejects her. The story is told through handcrafted stop motion animation.

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What happens

Junk Girl is a 2014 Iranian stop motion animated short film created in Tabriz by Shalale Kheiri and Mohammad Zare. The film is an adaptation of the namesake poem from Tim Burton's The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories. To date, the film has been nominated for awards in several different film festivals around the world. Junk Girl was also screened at the Tehran International Short Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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