MONSTRA Festival

Baby Monstrinha

Sessions:

9 March | CINEMA SÃO JORGE | 10:30
10 March | CINEMA SÃO JORGE | 10:30

16 March | CINEMA SÃO JORGE | 10:30
All films will be screened in Original Version and subtitled in Portuguese

Nessun Dorma

Country: RUSSIA Year: 2023 Duration: 3 mins.
Sinopsys:
A cosmic love story of two planets far from each other to the aria of Giacomo Puccini from the opera «Turandot» performed by Luciano Pavarotti.
Credits:
Direction: Daria Bolotnikova
Writers: Daria Bolotnikova
Production: Michael Semenov
Animation: Daria Bolotnikova
Music: Giacomo Puccini, Michael Semenov
Sound: Michael Semenov

Rainboy

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 2023 Duration: 5 mins.
Sinopsys:
Rainboy isn't a common gardener. He plants drops and grows clouds. While working he injures the vain sun. Revenge! The prognosis for the boy is bleak, but he teams up with the clouds and thus manages to brighten the sun's spirits again. A short film about stormy conflicts.
Credits:
Direction: Barbara Brunner
Writers: Barbara Brunner
Production: Franziska Meyer
Animation: Barbara Brunner, Justin Klaiber
Music: Martin Waespe
Sound: Thomas Gassmann
Distribution: Magnetfilm

Among the flowers

Country: RUSSIA, RUSSIA Year: 2023 Duration: 3 mins.
Sinopsys:
The film tells the story of a little fly who flies into a greenhouse and meets there a Venus flytrap...
Credits:
Direction: Valeriia Sobolevski
Writers: Valeriia Sobolevski
Animation: Valeriia Sobolevski
Music: Jacques Offenbach
Sound: Paul Bexx

Two Little Birds

Country: COLOMBIA, ARGENTINA, URUGUAY Year: 2021 Duration: 4 mins.
Sinopsys:
A little white bird and a little black bird are peacefully living together in a tree until something comes up. The peace ends as the birds start a crazy and funny competition about it, putting themselves and their home in danger. Any resemblance with reality is pure coincidence.
Credits:
Direction: Alfredo Soderguit, Alejo Schettini
Writers: Alfredo Soderguit y Alejo Schettini
Production: Productor Delegado: Mauricio Bolivar Castro Productor Ejecutivo: Juan Felipe Uribe Valencia Productora Ejecutiva EEF: Katherine Castillo
Animation: Estudio Palermo (Uruguay) y Can Can Club (Argentina)
Music: Bruno Bosell, Pablo Notaro
Sound: Bruno Boselli, Pablo Notaro y Daniel Yafalián
Distribution: Señal Colombia

Little Rain Worms

Country: CZECHIA Year: 2023 Duration: 8 mins.
Sinopsys:
The final season (40 - 52) of a popular Play Doh stop motion animation cartoon series for the youngest viewers of the Czech Television Kids Channel CT :D. With its total number of 52 episodes, it is the longest-running original animated project of Večerníček (TV bedtime stories) since 1989. The new episodes were once again the teamwork of screenwriter, animator and director Jaromír Gál and dramaturg Miloš Zvěřina. This time, in thirteen brand new stories, the two Little Rain Worms and their inseparable friend Blackbird experience adventure, suspense, but also inherent fun while saving the animals who live with them in the garden all year round. Through their bravery and hilarious transformations of their bodies, the Little Rain Worms rescue a squirrel from a burning tree and build her a new home. They will play pranks and frolic with a dragonfly, but at the right moment, save a grasshopper from a carnivorous plant. Dangerous situations and various pitfalls are solved by the Little Rain Worms and Blackbird with their characteristic wit, creativity, cleverness, and humor.
Credits:
Direction: Jaromír Gál
Writers: Jaromír Gál
Production: Czech Television - Barbara Johnsonová
Animation: Artist - Jaromír Gál, Animator - Marta Kačorová
Music: Zbynek Mateju
Sound: Ivo Špalj
Distribution: Czech Television Telexport

Dormouse

Country: GERMANY Year: 2022 Duration: 4 mins.
Sinopsys:
The dormouse overslept and missed his birthday party.
Credits:
Direction: Julia Ocker
Writers: Julia Ocker
Production: Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Animation: Ilya Lorenz Barrett, Ged Haney, Eliza P ocieniak-Alvarez
Music: Christian Heck, Sumophonic
Distribution: Studio FILM BILDER GmbH

Door

Country: JAPAN Year: 2023 Duration: 3 mins.
Sinopsys:
The red door of the house opens onto a series of rooms. The protagonist freely plays and explores in a landscape that repeats itself every time the door is opened. Then, he encounters a dog. The inside of the "house," which represents one's inner world, fluctuates amidst the repetition of daily life, and can be warm, joyful, or exciting. The film depicts a child expanding his or her world with new encounters and anxieties.
Credits:
Direction: Fuka Katayama
Music: Riruka Takada

Kids In Winter

Country: CHINA Year: 2022 Duration: 3 mins.
Sinopsys:
In the cold winter, the unexpected snowstorm is an inescapable challenge. Faced with the icy cave mouth, the rabbits need to make a concerted effort to return home. That is because the home is not only a place to live, but also a faith to support us to get through hard times. The merciless snowstorm is like an uninvited guest. Rabbits believe in the power of the goodwill of helping each other, and everyone is the child of the winter. They hope to make the home become everyone's safe shelter.
Credits:
Direction: Maing Caochong
Writers: Caochong Maing
Production: Echo Ni
Animation: Matt Liu
Sound: Zeng Zhangpeng

Fly By

Country: CZECHIA Year: 2023 Duration: 3 mins.
Sinopsys:
The short stop motion film Fly by depicts an encounter between a cloud and a plane. I mean, what could go wrong?
Credits:
Direction: Filip Dobeš
Production: Lukáš Gregor (Tomas Bata University in Zlín)
Animation: Filip Dobeš
Music: George Wilson
Sound: Jaroslav Nečas
Distribution: Tomas Bata University in Zlín

Egor!

Country: RUSSIA Year: 2023 Duration: 3 mins.
Sinopsys:
A story of one morning when Egor got lost.
Credits:
Direction: Maria Afonina
Writers: Maria Afonina
Production: Boris Mashkovtsev
Animation: Maria Afonina
Music: none
Sound: Pavel Ivashinnikov
Distribution: SMF animation studio