When you think about the level of detail and labor that goes into a feature-length stop-motion film, it boggles the mind. It's that elbow grease and abundant creativity that make stop-motion animation ...

We watch Gia (Tia Nomore) having tetchy meetings with her caseworker and sitting in group workshops in which she refuses to open up; but the film isn't some "hard-tack docudrama". Its mood is ...