MONSTRA Festival

Monstrinha Competition 6>9

The Night tunnel

Country: BELGIUM , FRANCE Year: 2024 Duration: 9 mins.
Synopsis:
After digging a tunnel on the beach, two kids from different sides of the world meet each other. Together, they dig their way to the North Pole, where they discover a magical way to go back home.
Credits:
Direction: Annechien Strouven
Writers: Bert Lesaffer
Production: Arnaud Demuynck
Animation: Jeroen Ceulebroeck, Jasmin Elsen, Febe Van Avermaet
Music: Yan Volsy
Sound: Jonathan Vanneste
Distribution: Miguel Español Celiméndiz
Age Classification: M/6

Hoofs on Skates

Country: LITHUANIA Year: 2024 Duration: 12 mins.
Synopsis:
In a winter wonderland two friends are having a blast ice-skating on a frozen lake when suddenly a strange and unfamiliar world cracks open underneath them. Now they must learn how to deal with the other kind, not letting the fear and preconceptions rule.
Credits:
Direction: Ignas Meil?nas
Writers: Titas LAUCIUS
Production: Kadr? Skyrius
Animation: Anni OJA, Matthew KRASUCKI O'DOWD, Ignas MEIL?NAS
Music: Marius MEIL?NAS
Sound: Dominyka ADOMAITYT?
Distribution: Miyu Distribution
Age Classification: M/6

Forever Seven

Country: GERMANY Year: 2024 Duration: 9 mins.
Synopsis:
A box is a box is a box. Sometimes though it's just a matter of perspective to discover something completely different behind it.
Credits:
Direction: Antje Heyn, Alexander Isert
Writers: SaBine Büchner
Production: Protoplanet Studio
Animation: Alexander Isert, Leia Brunner, Anna-Lena Remme, Carlotta Steckner
Music: Peer Kleinschmidt
Sound: Anna Dorothee von Hammerstein,Joh Weisgerber
Distribution: Fabian&Fred
Age Classification: M/6

Ummi and Zaki

Country: GERMANY Year: 2024 Duration: 4 mins.
Synopsis:
Zaki is a great dreamer, but he‘s short, hairy and ugly. Ummi doesn‘t know if she wants to be his friend for life. When the two of them get into great danger, they have to find out what kind of bond really connects them. A short story about courage, tolerance and friendship at second sight.
Credits:
Direction: Daniela Opp
Writers: Kai Rönnau
Production: Daniela Opp
Animation: Daniela Opp
Music: Christopher Dierks
Sound: Ulf Krüger
Distribution: Daniela Opp
Age Classification: M/6

Homework

Country: SPAIN Year: 2024 Duration: 15 mins.
Synopsis:
‘Homework’ is a 3D animated short film that follows the imaginative adventures of a pencil and its friends, using their unique abilities to help each other in unexpected situations, inside of the school where all of them live.
Credits:
Direction: Nacho Arjona
Writers: Nacho Arjona
Production: Nacho Arjona, Cristina Garcia Moreno
Animation: Juan Ignacio Gil-Hutton Alborés, Patricia Galán Pascual, Irene Cintado Pimentel, Nicholas Mortlock
Music: Joseba Beristain
Sound: Nikolai Tikhomirov, Nacho Arjona
Distribution: Ismael Martín, Selected Films
Age Classification: M/6

The Girl with the Occupied Eyes

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2024 Duration: 8 mins.
Synopsis:
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who, even when out and about, was always distracted. Eyes fixed on her phone, she didn’t notice the world around her or anyone who wanted to play with her. What could be done to “disoccupy” her eyes?
Credits:
Direction: André Carrilho
Writers: André Carrilho
Production: Hemi Fortes, Filipe Araújo
Animation: André Carrilho, Luís Vital, João Silva
Music: Nuno Costa
Sound: Pedro Carvalho, Sara Godinho, Rui Pereira
Distribution: Blablabla Media
Age Classification: M/6