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MONSTRA’s Animation and Other Arts section are spaces for meetings and dialogue, leading to new animations. In 2026, these dialogues expand between animation and music (classical and jazz), performance, theatre, installations and new technologies. Orchestras and Jazz Groups interact with moving images, installations gain life through the audience’s actions, Virtual and Augmented reality opens space to new sensation, and Theatre joins text, science, body and moving images into unique experiences, into MONSTRA!

Cinema-Concert Peter and the Wolf Live

To celebrate the 90th anniversary of ‘Peter and the Wolf’, a story told through music, composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936, we’ll have a screening of the 2006 film by Suzie Templeton, accompanied by live music performed by the Wind Orchestra of the Santa Cecília Music Academy.

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Immersive MONSTRA

Immersive MONSTRA opens a new chapter in the relation with image and movement and Virtual Reality. Presenting two innovative VR projects: ‘ITO MEIKY?’ by Boris Labbé, a hypnotic visual labyrinth where oppositions cross each other; and ‘Oto’s Planet’ by Gwenael François, an interactive and poetic short story about coexistence. Immersive MONSTRA also includes an AR experience of the 25 posters celebrating the 25th editions of the festival.

13 - 21 March | PASSEVITE | 19:30

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Immersive MONSTRA

Immersive MONSTRA

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Goethe’s Dark Room

A performative experience that invites the spectator to rethink the way we see and feel light, and colours. Inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s book, “Theory of Colours”, this play takes stage in an octagon where light is seen as dynamic matter, transformed through interaction with bodies and space. The audience is invited to enter into an optical and perceptive game, in which shadows, reflections and colour phenomena construct a constantly changing sensory experience. Performance by Beatriz Boleto and Gonçalo Silva. Music by Nick Rothwell.

12 March | GOETHE-INSTITUT | 16:00

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13 March | GOETHE-INSTITUT | 17:00

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Goethe’s Dark Room

Goethe’s Dark Room

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Green Giants

MONSTRA 2026 has Nature and Sustainability as its main theme. In partnership with the festival, VERDE is organising a guided walk to visit some of Lisbon's Green Giants. These are monumental trees that live in the city and, despite their size and importance, often go unnoticed. Along the way, we will stop, observe and learn more about these large trees, understanding their ecological, climatic and cultural value. An opportunity to look at Lisbon more closely and rediscover the nature that is already part of it. Up to 30 participants

15 March | CINEMA SÃO JORGE | 15:00

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Green Giants

Green Giants

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Film-Concert Jazzanim

Since MONSTRA’s first edition, Jazz and Animation intersect. JazzAnim renews this creative symbiosis, joining musical improv to the movement of image in unique and irreproducible screenings, where spontaneity gives life to moving images.

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Film-Concert Jazzanim

Film-Concert Jazzanim

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