FIMFA Lx25 - New Site

FIMFA Lx25

International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms

8 May to 1 June 2025

Attention! We've just launched our new website! Check out the Programme: www.tarumba.pt

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Familie Flöz (Germany)

Teatro Delusio

The 17th edition of FIMFA Lx - International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms opens with the virtuosos of the German mask with one of its most internationally awarded shows! Unmissable!

MARIA MATOS TEATRO MUNICIPAL

11, 12 and 13 May at 9.30pm (Thursday, Friday and Saturday)

FIMFA Lx17 Opening Show

Teatro y su Doble (Chile)

Feos

A beautiful and moving work about the relation of the human being with the beauty and its opposite, with puppets manipulated with an extraordinary precision.

SÃO LUIZ TEATRO MUNICIPAL - Sala Mário Viegas
13 May at 9pm (Friday and Saturday)

14 May at 5.30pm and 9pm (Sunday)

Portuguese Premiere

Bêtes de Foire - Petit Théâtre de Gestes (France)

A brushstroke of Kantor, an evocation of Calder and its burlesque touch make Bêtes de Foire infinitely precious! Absolutely not to be missed: circus, object theatre, dance and puppets! To see from 8 to 108 years!

CIRCUS TENT IN MUSEU DE LISBOA - PALÁCIO PIMENTA

13 and 14 May at 7pm (Saturday and Sunday)

18 and 19 May at 9pm (Thursday and Friday)

20 and 21 May at 7pm (Saturday and Sunday)

Portuguese Premiere

Phia Ménard - Cie Non Nova (France)

L’Après-Midi d’un Foehn - version 1

A fantastic aerial ballet for plastic bags! With disarming simplicity, Phia Ménard invites us to “see things in a new way” with a show that defies the laws of gravity and sets the imagination free! It's like a dream!

SÃO LUIZ TEATRO MUNICIPAL - Sala Mário Viegas

18 and 19 May at 10.30am and 2.30pm (Thursday and Friday)

20 and 21 May at 11am and 4pm (Saturday and Sunday)

São Luiz Mais Novos

Portuguese Premiere

Paul Zaloom (United States of America)

The Adventures of White-Man

Paul Zaloom is one of the most renowned American puppeteers and his weapons of choice - puppetry and humor - are used to disarm the audience and make everybody laugh their heads off while tackling (serious) social and political issues. 

TEATRO NACIONAL D. MARIA II - Sala Estúdio

19 May at 9.30pm (Friday)

20 and 21 May at 7pm (Saturday and Sunday)

Portuguese Premiere

Yoann Bourgeois / CCN2 - Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble (France)

Celui qui Tombe

Yoann Bourgeois is like a giant puppeteer full of humour, operating the strings of an enormous platform, a flying carpet or infernal carousel, which pushes the bodies to the verge of falling. Who manipulates whom? It's impossible not to fall for its charm!

SÃO LUIZ TEATRO MUNICIPAL - Sala Luis Miguel Cintra

20 Maio at 9pm (Saturday)

21 May at 5.30pm (Sunday)

Plexus Polaire (France-Norway)

Cendres

Actors, life-size puppets and video projection come together in this gripping piece of visual theatre, inspired by the true events related in best-selling Norwegian novel, Before I Burn, with an exceptional puppet manipulation. Not to be missed!

MARIA MATOS TEATRO MUNICIPAL

20 and 21 May at 9.30pm (Saturday and Sunday)

Portuguese Premiere

Renaud Herbin (France)

Milieu

Renaud Herbin offers a new way of looking at string puppets, an emblematic technique of puppetry, which is now approached by the service of a contemporary writing. Poetry of detail, Milieu magnetizes our eyes and attention!

SÃO LUIZ TEATRO MUNICIPAL - Sala Mário Viegas

22 and 23 May at 7pm and 9pm (Monday and Tuesday)

Portuguese Premiere

Teatro de Marionetas do Porto (Portugal)

Como um Carrossel

A new approach to the writing of late João Paulo Seara Cardoso, which encourages children's imagination.

TEATRO TABORDA
24 and 25 May at 2.30pm (Wednesday and Thursday)

Cie La Pendue (France)

Tria Fata

A magical, poetic and burlesque show with live music. The metamorphoses of a life exposed before our eyes, in a dynamic, delirious, unusual and hallucinatory way!

SÃO LUIZ TEATRO MUNICIPAL - Sala Mário Viegas
26 and 27 May at 9.pm (Friday and Saturday)
28 May at 5.30pm (Sunday)
Portuguese Premiere

Teatro de Ferro (Portugal)

Bela Adormecida

A very singular Sleeping Beauty! Her dreams were so intense and so strange that they mingled with the dreams of those who took care of her. For the youngest and the not so young!

TEATRO TABORDA
27 and 28 May at 4pm (Sunday)