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Monstra is coming!

Monstra’s – Festival de Cinema de Animação de Lisboa Lisbon’s Animation Film Festival - 6th edition celebrates again this year the world’s best animation, this time with Russia as guest country. This year Monstra will take place at Maria Matos Theatre and King Cinema from the 21st to the 27th May and will be the most ambitious edition to this day.

The guest country is Russia, a country that has given us some of the most unique and creative films in the History of animation. Some of its worldwide awarded cineastes will be in Portugal to present their films and to participate in workshops and master-classes. With its rich as well as turbulent artistic progression, closely related to political convulsions throughout the 20th century, Russia has been throughout History a country occupying a central position as far as author, child, modern and avant-garde animation is concerned. Baring in mind this perspective it wasn’t by chance that “Tale of Tales” (1979) by Yuri Norstein was chosen in 1984 and 2002 as the Best Animation Film of All Times by a group of worldwide experts. Gladly, in this year’s Monstra we will be able to see it.

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This year and for the first time Monstra will start a Feature Film Competition Section – this comprises some of the most recent interesting and bold works from all over the world. This Section will take place every other year, which will alternate with a Short Film Competition Section (this last one starting next year).

Wladyslaw Starewicz - The Cameraman’s Revenge

One of Monstra’s most important features is its status as a multidisciplinary festival, a convergency space of animation film and other media and arts. For this purpose sets of animation works mixed with fine, performative or musical arts will continue to be presented.
Among Monstra’s many activities, training still occupies a main position with its workshops and seminars given by worldwide experts. The younger generations have also the opportunity to participate in Monstrinha, a space where children see, argue and learn about the art of animation.
Monstra is a Ânimo Leve production with the partnership of EGEAC/EM, Meridional Theatre and Maria Matos Theatre. It is also supported by the City Hall (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa), the ICAM/CM, the Russian Embassy and other public and private entities.