MONSTRA Festival

Classics

Classics

Peter Pan

Sessions:
18 March | Cinema UCI - El Corte Inglés | 16:30
Year: 1953 Duration: 77 mins.
Sinopsys:
Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan.
Credits:
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

Old Czech Legends

Sessions:
23 March | Cinemateca - Sala Luís de Pina | 19:30
Country: Czech Republic Year: 1953 Duration: 91 mins.
Sinopsys:
The film tells the ancient story of Bohemia, how it was founded by Czech, the Forefather, and a series of legendary episodes of heroes, queens and kings, inspired by a book by Alois Jirásek compiling the Czech myths.
Credits:
Director: Jirí Trnka

Alice

Sessions:
24 March | Cinemateca - Sala Luís de Pina | 19:30
Country: Czech Republic Year: 1988 Duration: 86 mins.
Sinopsys:
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare, no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
Credits:
Director: Jan Svankmajer

Winter Days

Sessions:
Country: Japan Year: 2003 Duration: 39 mins.
Sinopsys:
A collaboration of animators from all around the world to create a visual Renku, a style of poetry specific to Japan whereby composers write a poem as a group, each poet creating a different verse. “Winter Days” is taken from Basho's Seven Poetry Collection and it is a paradigm of the sho-fu style of haiku. Led by Kihachiro Kawamoto, 35 animators from Japan, China, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Netherlands, Canada, and Russia, masters of their own style in the animation world, made this 36 parts Renku.
Credits:
Director: Kihachirō Kawamoto