MONSTRA | Lisbon Animation Festival

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2024
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SPA – Vasco Granja Award

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Miguel Lima, Dimitri Mihajlovic
Almost Forgotten
A woman wanders through the impermanence of her childhood memories, trying to rebuild the story of the house where her…

Special Mention Portuguese Competition

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André Ruivo
Easter
Autobiographical documentary about an Easter vacation spent by the Ruivo’s family in the country town of Castelo de…

Audience Award Portuguese Competition

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Marta Monteiro
Cold Soup
A woman victim of domestic violence looks back at the years when she was married, recalling how difficult it was to stay…

Grand-Prix for Best Short by RTP

9 min
Clémence Bouchereau
The Purple Season
On an island at the edge of the mangrove, girls live to the rhythm of the climate. Héloïse, the youngest, is timidly…

Best Portuguese Short

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Marta Monteiro
Cold Soup
A woman victim of domestic violence looks back at the years when she was married, recalling how difficult it was to stay…

Jury Special Award Short Film Competition

14 min
Levi Stoops
Drijf
Jeremy and Aurora are lost at sea. In the vast openness of the ocean they are cooped up together on a small tree trunk.…

Audience Award Short Film Competition

15 min
Raquel Sancinetti
Madeleine
Every week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in a senior home's living room. The younger friend…

Grand-Prix for Best Feature Film by RTP

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Sébastien Laudenbach, Chiara Malta
Chicken for Linda!
A loving mom, Paulette, who feels guilty after unfairly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up…

Best Youth Feature Film

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Filip Posivac
Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light
Tony is wasting away at home. His controlling parents want to protect him mostly because, once he takes off his mask and…

Jury Special Award Feature Film Competition

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Yoshimi Itazu
The Concierge
Akino is a trainee concierge at the Arctic Department Store, an unusual department store that caters exclusively to…

MONSTRINHA Grand-Prix by INATEL

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Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada, Christian Arredondo Narvaez
Nube
Noma is a fluffy white cloud, just like the ones that appear on sunny days. But her daughter is dark and stormy —…

MONSTRINHA Schools Audience Award

3 min
Julia Ocker
Pufferfish
In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the pufferfish is trying to seem as big and strong as possible.

MONSTRINHA Family Audience Award

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Oskar Lehemaa
The Mystery of Missing Socks
Little Pille goes to find her father's missing socks under the bed, to a fantastical world of forgotten things. There…

Special Mention MONSTRINHA

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Arnaud Demuynck, Celia Tisserant
Go Away, Alfred!
Alfred had to flee his country because of the war. Without housing, he wanders, from rejection to rejection. One day he…

Best Student Short Film

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Bianca Scali
It's Just a Whole
An unpleasant examination by a meticulous doctor leads to a supposedly inevitable medical intervention that leaves the…

Special Mentions Student Short Film

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Anita Kühnel Szabó
Your Dad
Miklós’ young adult life is a failure. After an accident, he finds himself in purgatory, where his father, who had…

Special Mentions Student Short Film

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Alexis Mouron
See you champion!
While his mother is out, Alexis looks inside a chest of drawers.

Best Student Short Film – Junior Jury

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Louise Laurent and 4 co-directors
Wolf are you there?
A little girl named Mischa lives in the suburbs of Moscow. She has just made a beautiful violin out of paper. She wants…

Special Mentions – Junior Jury Student Short Film

8 min
Agathe Sénéchal and 4 co-directors
On the 8th day
It took 7 days to create the world, it only took one to disrupt its balance.

Special Mentions – Junior Jury Student Short Film

4 min
Zhengwu Gu, Ling Zhao
Dandelion
In a dystopian world, a coal-burning robot working in a mine one day finds something that he has never seen before – a…

Audience Award Student Short Film

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Jiahang Li
Ride on the Wind
This film is about the story of an old man who insistently took care of his wife, a paralytic old woman. As her illness…

Short Short Film Competition

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Natálie Durchánková
Cats are liquid
A film filled with multiple silly scenes that prove that cats are (contrary to popular belief) not in fact solid but…

Best Portuguese Short Short Film

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Tiago Silva and 2 co-directors
Aromas
A blind synesthete, capable of associating smells with different colors and textures, is looking for something to eat.…

Special Mentions Short Short Film

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Rickie Cai
The Blue Boy
Siblings Ida and Rickie Cai have created a strong history of child abuse. The story is based on Ricky's own experiences…

Special Mentions Short Short Film

2 min
Katalin Egely
Knowing How to Fall is a Science
It's something you train for: Absorbing disasters, prevent falling after ligament rupture. Looking straight at the…

Audience Award for Feature Films Perspectives Competittion

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Pablo Berger
Robot Dreams
The adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in New York City during the 1980s. DOG lives in Manhattan and he's tired…

Audience Award for Short Films Perspectives Competittion

8 min
Greg McLeod
Mee and Burd
A post operative existential crisis inspires an animator to make a film about a post operative existential crisis.