Since 2000, the MONSTRA festival has promoted artistic creations on the border of absurdity and conventional aesthetics. The organizers create a cultural bridge for artists of many arts, using the multidisciplinary language of animated film.

The festival runs from 20 to 30, March, 2025.

Viewers will see DUCK BROTH directed by Maria Dakszewicz in the Student Film Competition:

Film synopsis: Exhausted from the night's adventures, a man takes a bath and enters into dialogue with a rubber duck. Together, they roam through the events of the previous evening, in a hunger infused exploration of the urban eateries.

Credits:
direction, screenplay, animation: Maria Dakszewicz
production management: Katarzyna Lipińska
cast: Jakub Kondrat, Zofia Świątkiewicz, Natalia Modrzewska
artistic supervision: Jacek Rokosz, Kacper Zamarło, Piotr Milczarek

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Zuzanna Heller’s film LOVE IN THE TIMES OF INFLATION qualified for the Super Short Film Competition.

Film synopsis: Stefa goes shopping despite rampant inflation.

Film credits:
direction, screenplay, animation: Zuzanna Heller
editing: Cecylia Pacura
artistic supervision: Jacek Rokosz, Kacper Zamarło, Piotr Milczarek production management: Jonasz Różański

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Festival programme: monstrafestival.com/en/films

Fingers crossed!

1 – organizers’ press materials
2 – still from the film DUCK BROTH
3 – still from the film LOVE IN THE TIMES OF INFLATION