MONSTRA 2025

Animated cinema returns to Lisbon with the 25th edition of MONSTRA. The country in the spotlight is Austria, honored with a special retrospective. The programme also includes three exhibitions and a program dedicated to young people in the usual MONSTRINHA.

Highlights from the Opening Ceremony programme are: One Way Cycle, by Alicia Nuñez Puerto, Mind the Gap, by José-Manuel Xavier and O Rapaz que Apagava Beijos, by Radostina Neykova and Fernando Galrito.

Over the last quarter of a century, MONSTRA has welcomed more than a million spectators, with around 12,500 films and 3,000 sessions. The festival has been visited by more than two thousand creators, directors and animators, with around three dozen Oscar nominees.

In homage to Austria, a historical retrospective is shown, conceived by Thomas Renoldner, director and curator of the Vienna Shorts festival, includes a set of eight programmes that take a thematic journey through the main works and authors from this country, from the pioneering works of the 1920s to the most recent works, that include more classical narratives. It also includes a retrospective that revisits some of the contemporary films that have featured in previous editions of the festival since it was founded in 2000.

Full Programme here.

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