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Montreal duo's haunting stop-motion fable goes global on NFB.ca
MONTREAL, March 19, 2026 /CNW/ - The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is bringing Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's Oscar-winning stop-motion fable The Girl Who Cried Pearls to viewers around the world.
Named Best Animated Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards, the English-language version of this haunting Montreal-set and produced short—narrated by Colm Feore—is now streaming for free on NFB.ca and all NFB apps, available worldwide (*excluding France and its overseas territories, Germany, Spain and Andorra).
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The Girl Who Cried Pearls by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (17 min 37 s)
Produced by Julie Roy, Marc Bertrand and Christine Noël
Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/the-girl-who-cried-pearls
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