The Program

h.6.30 pm – Church of San Giuseppe – free entry (22/27 August – opening time 6.30 pm/11.00 pm)
VERNISSAGE “NUNC”  – VITO SAVINO EXHIBITION

“Ever new waters from ancient springs quench the thirst of the work-weary eyes of the artist. These waters gush full of life from the depths, after having inhabited the intimacy of the earth. Nothing is as beautiful as the profound, the merely imaginable, that furtive thought, which we cannot grasp except for an instant. The artist’s hand realises through bodies the presence of this invisible, his mind intuits the hidden name of things. How much can the small things of nature, biological machines of meditation, arouse, in the believer and the non-believer, a universal feeling or at least one that can be shared through the artist’s work? Vito Savino, using the mystery of the pictorial gesture, offers with the exhibition ‘Soul and Action’ an answer to this challenging question.”
Prof. Simone De Summa

h 6.30 pm – Galleria Cattedrale – free antry (22/27 August – opening time 6.30 pm/11.00 pm)
VERNISSAGE EXHIBITONS OF  MARA CERRI, GIULIA PINTUS, QUASIROSSO, MAICOL & MIRCO 

The Imaginaria festival is pleased to present a collective of four Italian authors who work in the world of comics and illustration. Four very different ways of communicating through different styles and techniques but all with a precise authorial imprint. Very popular on social media and at trade fairs, they come to Conversano to meet the public of aficionados and all those curious who, for the first time, will have the opportunity to discover them.

h.10.00 pm – Cloister of St. Benedict – free entry
SPECIAL OPENING EVENT
CINE-CONCERT OF  LOUIS SCHWIZGEBEL AND GEORGES SCHWIZGEBEL

For the opening night of the Imaginaria Festival, the artistic director Luigi Iovane has the great pleasure of hosting Georges Schwizgebel, one of the most important figures in Swiss animation, together with his son Louis Schwizgebel, a well-known international pianist. Georges and Louis devised the evening’s program, which alternates between recitals and film screenings. For this cine-concert, Louis Schwizgebel will also accompany some works created over the years by his father Georges on the piano.

This is the programme:

• Debussy, Estampes I, Pagode 5′
• La jeune fille et les nuages (2000) Mendelssohn Fugue Op.5, 4’30
• Brahms, Op.118, N.2 Intermezzo, 6′
• Romance (2011) Rachmaninov, cello sonata Op. 19 8’
• Brahms, Op.118, N.4 Intermezzo, N.5 Romanze, N.6 Intermezzo, 12′
• L’homme sans ombre (2004) Judith Gruber-Stitzer 9’30
• Chopin, Nocturnes Op.48 1 & 2, 12′
• Jeu (2006) Prokofiev, Scherzo from concerto N.2, 4′
• Louis plays with the movie – Le roi des aulnes (2015), Schubert/Liszt 5’30

The evening will continue with the screening of the works that complete Georges Schwizgebel’s filmography.
Le vol d’Icare (1974), Perspectives (1975), Hors-jeu (1977), Le ravissement de Frank N. Stein (1982), 78 tours (1985), Nakounine (1986), Le sujet du tableau (1989), La course à l’abîme (1992), L’année du daim (1995), ZigZag (1996), Fugue (1998), Retouches (2008), Chemin Faisant (2012), 1/3/10 (2012), The battle of San Romano (2017), Darwin’s Notebook (2020)

EXHIBITIONS

h.6.30 pm – Church of San Giuseppe – free entry (22/27 August – opening time 6.30 pm/11.00 pm)
“NUNC” PERSONAL EXHIBITION OF VITO SAVINO

h.6.30 pm – Galleria Cattedrale – free entry (22/27 August – opening time 6.30 pm/11.00 pm)
VERNISSAGE EXHIBITONS OF  MARA CERRI, GIULIA PINTUS, QUASIROSSO, MAICOL & MIRCO 

IMAGINARIA MEETINGS
Meetings with the Authors

Do you want to get to know the guests of the festival more closely?
Do you want to know more about their work and experiences?
So you can’t miss the opportunity to participate in the “Imaginaria Meetings”!
The meetings will be held at the Cloister of San Giuseppe (next to the Ex Church of San Giuseppe) and will be assisted by interpreters for simultaneous translation.

h.7.00 pm – Georges Schwizgebel, Louis Schwizgebel
Free Entry
Drink&Beverage by Skribi Bistrot

h.9.00 pm – Lemon Garden – Children’s Short Film Competition
Black Slide by Uri Lotan (Israel, 2021,11’12)
Bo and Trash by Tatiana Skorlupkina (Spain, 2022, 11’25)
Bristles by Quentin Haberham (Netherlands, 2021, 2’15)
Cat and Bird by Franka Sachse (Germany, 2021, 7’32)
La custodia (The case) by Maurizio Forestieri (Italy, 2021, 40′)

h.9.30 pm – Cloister of St Benedict – Graduation Short Film & Music Video Competition
h.10.30 pm – Lemon Garden – Graduation Short Film & Music Video Competition
A place in blu by Seung eon Yi (Republic of Korea, 2021, 8’40)
Do Not Feed The Pigeons by Antonin Niclass (UK, 2021, 8’41)
Downfall by Rona Fayad (Lebanon, 2021, 3’28)
Family Jewels by Tilly Wallace (UK, 2021, 2’20)
Tick Tock by Chris McDonnell, Aldous Harding (USA, 2022, 3’45)
The Last Song On Earth by Gaia Alari (USA, 2022, 3’31)

h.10.15 pm – Cloister of St Benedict – International Short Film Competition
h.11.15 pm – Lemon garden – International Short Film Competition
A Bite of Bone by Honami Yano (Japan, 2021, 9’45)
A Body by Milena Tipaldo (Italy, 2021, 2’10)
Anxious Body by Yoriko Mizushiri (France, 2022, 5’46)
A Story for 2 Trumpets by Amandine Meyer (France, 2022, 5’26)
Bird in the Peninsula by Atsushi Wada (France, 2022, 16′)
Clair De Lune by Fabio Bozzetto, Diego Zucchi (Italy, 2022, 6’22)
Depths Of Night by Step C. (Hong Kong, 2021, 12’33)

h.11.00 pm – Cloister of St Benedict
Dozen of Norths by Koji Yamamura (Japan, France, 2021, 64’ V.O.S.I.)
There are many Nords, and they are all very lonely. Even if you meet so many people, it is difficult to remember them.
The first feature film written, painted and directed by Koji Yamamura, based on the author’s illustrations for the monthly Bungakukai (Bungeishunjū)

Koji Yamamura
Born in 1964, Koji began working on animated films for pleasure as early as the age of 13. During the 90s he explored various styles and techniques working mainly on children’s films. With “Mt. Head “was nominated for an Oscar for best animated short film leading him to join the most famous animation filmmakers in the world. His major works since then include “The Old Crocodile” (2005), “Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor” (2007) and “Muybridge’s Strings” (2011). His films have received over 100 awards, including the “First Prize” at the four most important international animated film festivals: Annecy, Zagreb, Ottawa and Hiroshima. He has served on numerous international juries and has attended numerous retrospectives around the world. In 2021 at the Animac, the International Animation Showcase of Catalonia was awarded the 2nd place among the 25 best animated short film directors of the last 25 years. He was awarded the National Medal with the Purple Ribbon in 2019. Member of the Academy of Film Arts and Sciences. Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts.

EXHIBITIONS

h.6.30 pm – Church of San Giuseppe – free entry (22/27 August – opening time 6.30 pm/11.00 pm)
“NUNC” PERSONAL EXHIBITION OF VITO SAVINO

h.6.30 pm – Galleria Cattedrale – free entry (22/27 August – opening time 6.30 pm/11.00 pm)
VERNISSAGE EXHIBITONS OF  MARA CERRI, GIULIA PINTUS, QUASIROSSO, MAICOL & MIRCO 

IMAGINARIA MEETINGS
Meetings with the Authors

Do you want to get to know the guests of the festival more closely?
Do you want to know more about their work and experiences?
So you can’t miss the opportunity to participate in the “Imaginaria Meetings”!
The meetings will be held at the Cloister of San Giuseppe (next to the Ex Church of San Giuseppe) and will be assisted by interpreters for simultaneous translation.

h.7 pm – Anca Damian, Paul Wenninger, Miljana Dragičević
Free Entry
Drink&Beverage by Skribi Bistrot

h.9 pm – Lemon Garden – Children’s Short Film Competition
Eye of the whale  by Giorgia Bonora, M. Lucia Schimmenti, Francina Ramos, Tess Tagliaferro (Italy, 2022, 6’37)
Footsteps on the Wind by Maya Sanbar, Gustavo Leal, Faga Melo (Brazil, 2021, 7’5)
Funny Birds by Charlie Belin (France, 2021, 30′)
Greece treasures by Janis Cimmermanis (Latvia, 2021, 11′)
Kayak by Solène Bosseboeuf, Flore Dechorgnat, Tiphaine Klein, Auguste Lefort Antoine Rossi (France, 2021, 6’11)
Where the stone will fall  by Beatrice Pucci (Italy, 2021, 4’47)

h.9.30 pm – Cloister of St Benedict – Graduation Short Film & Music Video Competition
h.10.30 pm – Lemon Garden – Graduation Short Film & Music Video Competition
Fleeting here & there by Gilnaz Arzpeyma (Canada, 2021, 2’22)
Fly High by Giuseppina Fais, Lorenzo Pappa Monteforte, Kevin Rosso, Yagiz Tunceli (Italy, 2022, 6’39)
Girl in the water by Shi-Rou Huang (Taiwan, 2021, 7’20)
Graziano and the giraffe by Fabio Orlando, Tommaso Zerbi (Italy, 2022, 6’33)
Every sunrise by Simone Massi (Italy, 2021, 2’30)
Clinica by Giovanni Montagnana, David Sarappa (Italy, 2022, 2’16)

h.10.15 pm – Clister of St Benedict – International Short Film Competition
h.11.15 pm – Lemon Garden – International Short Film Competition
Drone by Sean Buckelew (USA, 2022, 15′)
Failure to assist a person in danger by Marc Faye (France, 2022, 3’07)
Footsteps on the wind by Maya Sanbar, Raga Melo, Gustavo Leal (UK, 2022, 7’14)
Garrano by Vasco Sá, David Doutel (Portugal, 2022, 14’08)
Granny’s Sexual Life by Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard (Slovenia, 2022, 13’40)
Hysteresis by Robert Seidel (Germany, 2022, 5’05)
I gotta look good for the apocalypse by Ayce Kartal (France, 2022, 5’36)

h.11.15 pm – Cloister of St Benedict
The crossing (La traversée) by Florence Miailhe (France, Germany, Czech Republic, 2021, 80’, V.O.S.I.)
A ransacked village, a family on the run and two children lost on the road to exile. The film, the first by Florence Miailhe and made with the technique of animated painting, tells the story of Kyona and Adriel, who try to find a country that hosts them, sets them free and saves them from their persecutors.
Introduced by director Florence Miailhe

Florence Miailhe
Active author since the early 90s Florence Miailhe is one of the most famous animators in the world, capable of becoming, with her unique and complex painting style, a point of reference in the world of animation. Florence Miailhe, of pictorial training, managed to combine painting and animation by analyzing and researching the themes of the body and sensuality through stories drawn from The Thousand and One Nights and from places of social meeting, such as Turkish baths or parties of country, among others. After graduating from the French National School of Decorative Arts, she began her career as a model maker and directed her first short film, Hammam, in 1991. Her animation technique is based on “animated painting” with the use of colored pastels and even sand, mixes the various artistic techniques directly in the shooting phase. His film, A Summer Night Rendez-Vous, won the best short film award at the 2002 César Awards. He also received a special mention at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his film Conte de quartier, as well as the crystal of honor ( Lifetime Achievement Award) in 2015 in Annecy.
Imaginaria dedicates an integral retrospective to Florence Miailhe to introduce the Italian public to one of the most important animators of the last 30 years, as well known at home and abroad as yet to be discovered in Italy.

EXHIBITIONS

h.6.30 pm – Church of San Giuseppe – free entry (22/27 August – opening time 6.30 pm/11.00 pm)
“NUNC” PERSONAL EXHIBITION OF VITO SAVINO

h.6.30 pm – Galleria Cattedrale – free entry (22/27 August – opening h.6 pm closing h.11 pm)
VERNISSAGE EXHIBITONS OF  MARA CERRI, GIULIA PINTUS, QUASIROSSO, MAICOL & MIRCO 

IMAGINARIA MEETINGS
Meetings with the Authors

Do you want to get to know the guests of the festival more closely?
Do you want to know more about their work and experiences?
So you can’t miss the opportunity to participate in the “Imaginaria Meetings”!
The meetings will be held at the Cloister of San Giuseppe (next to the Ex Church of San Giuseppe) and will be assisted by interpreters for simultaneous translation.

h.7 pm – Eugenia Gaglianone, Ahmed Ben Nessib, Michele Bernardi, Luigi Tassinari
Free Entry
Drink&Beverage by Skribi Bistrot

h.9.00 pm – Lemon Garden – Children’s Short Film Competition
Laika & Nemo by Jan Gadermann, Sebastian Gadow (Germany, 2022, 15′)
Meta by Antje Heyn (Germany, 2022, 3’36)
Mussels & Fries by Nicolas Hu (France, 2021, 26′)
Pater et Filio by Pablo De Estrada (Argentina-Canada, 2022, 4’16)
Piece of Art by Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch (Netherlands, 2021, 2’15)
Polar Bear Bears Boredom by Koji Yamamura (Japan, 2021, 7’)
Color-less by Estefania Piñeres (Colombia, 2022, 12’59)

h.9.30 pm – Cloister of St Benedict– Graduation Short Film & Music Video Competition
h.10.30 pm – Lemon Garden – Graduation Short Film & Music Video Competition
Hand by Tsz-Wing Ho (Hong Kong, 2021, 5’15)
In his mercy by Christoph Büttner (Germany, 2022, 11’55)
Pentola by Leo Černic (Italy, 2022, 7’12)
Persona by Sujin Moon (South Korea, 2022, 06’45)
Wings for Butterflies by Tilly Wallace (UK, 2021, 3’43)
Lonely by Izumi Tanaka (Japan, 2022, 3’05)
Mamour by Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka (France, 2021, 3’54)

h.10.15 pm – Cloister of St Benedict – International Short Film Competition
h.11.15 pm – Lemon Garden – International Short Film Competition
Ice Merchants by João Gonzalez (Portugal, 2022, 14′)
Inglorious Liaisons by Chloé Alliez et Violette Delvoye (France/Belgium, 2021, 11’02)
Letter to a Pig by Tal Kantor (France, 2022, 16’40)
Lucky man by Claude Luyet (Switzerland, 2022, 7’50)
Mistral by Nico Bonomolo (Italy, 2021, 10’30)
Menagerie by Jack Gray (USA, 2022, 4’25)
My Father’s Damn Camera! by Milos Tomic (Slovenia, 2021, 6’40)
Where the stone will fall by Beatrice Pucci (Italy, 2021, 4’47)

h.6.30 pm – Church of San Giuseppe – free entry (22/27 August – opening time 6.30 pm/11.00 pm)
“NUNC” PERSONAL EXHIBITION OF VITO SAVINO

h.6.30 pm – Galleria Cattedrale – free entry (22/27 August – opening h.6 pm closing h.11 pm)
VERNISSAGE EXHIBITONS OF  MARA CERRI, GIULIA PINTUS, QUASIROSSO, MAICOL & MIRCO 

IMAGINARIA MEETINGS
Meetings with the Authors

Do you want to get to know the guests of the festival more closely?
Do you want to know more about their work and experiences?
So you can’t miss the opportunity to participate in the “Imaginaria Meetings”!
The meetings will be held at the Cloister of San Giuseppe (next to the Ex Church of San Giuseppe) and will be assisted by interpreters for simultaneous translation.

h.7 pm – Giò Quasirosso, Maicol & Mirco, Mara Cerri, Giulia Pintus
Free Entry
Drink&Beverage by Skribi Bistrot

h.9.00 pm – Lemon Garden – Children’s Short Film Competition
Rain by Mahdi Barqzadegan (Iran, 2021, 6’34)
She Dreams At Sunrise by Camrus Johnson (USA, 2021, 10’39)
Spuffies by Jaka Ivanc (Slovenia, 2021, 11’9)
The Boy and the Elephant by Sonia Gerbeaud (France, 2022, 6’40)
The comfortable indifference of abundance by Lucas Schiaroli (Argentina, 2021, 4’22)
The Fall by Desirae Witte (Canada, 2021, 2’21)
You by Haochen Du (China, 2021, 4’27)
Volcano by Margherita Abbruzzi, Serena Miraglia, Giada Rizzi, Lara Zizzi (Italy, 2022, 6’58)

h.9.30 pm – Cloister of St Benedict – Graduation Short Film & Music Video Competition
h.10.30 pm – Lemon Garden – Graduation Short Film & Music Video Competition
Roots (Raìces) by Maddalena Brozzi, Sara Moschini, Laura Cagnoni (Italy, 2022, 7’34)
Resting Fog by Nicolett Fábián (Hungary, 2022, 5’12)
Sauna by Anna Lena Spring, Lara Perren (Switzerland, 2021, 4’19)
Small Hours by Marta Sniezek, Christian Spurling (Ireland, 2022, 5′)
We are not there tomorrow by Olga Kłyszewicz (Poland, 2022, 8′)
If really have to by Mara Cerri (Italy, 2021, 3’38)
Solace in structure by Donato Sansone (Italy, 2022, 3’18)

h.10.10 pm – Cloister of St Benedict – International Short Film Competition
h.11.10 pm – Lemon Garden– International Short Film Competition
Night by Ahmad Saleh (State of Palestine, 2021, 15’57)
No Wor(l)ds by Egor Olegovich Kharlamov (Russian Federation, 2022, 1’30)
Pachyderme by Stéphanie Clément (France, 2022, 11′)
Passenger by Juan Pablo Zaramella (Argentina, 2022, 10′)
Projections – Collective animated film by Beatrice Mazzone (Italy, 2021, 5’49)
Slipping Away by Gabriel Hénot Lefèvre (France, 2022, 14′)
Stain by Shiva Sadegh Asadi (Iran, 2022, 3’40)
Vertebrae lomborum by Martino Prendini (Italy, 2022, 0’50)

h.11.00 pm – Cloister of St Benedict
The nose of conspiracy of Mavericks by Andrey Khzhanovskiy (Russia, 89’, 2020, ITA dubbed)
The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks, an animated film by Andrey Khrzhanovsky, based on the short story The Nose by Nikolai Gogol and the comic opera of the same name by Dmitry Shostakovich. The film becomes a careful look at the twentieth century with sometimes cheerful, other darker views, focusing above all on the fall into political / ideological repression in Russia, showing how the country has always cyclically followed this path. Accompanied by the music of Shostakovich, the film is dedicated and tells of the nonconformists who had the courage to oppose Stalin’s regime and who, precisely for this reason, were persecuted by the dictator and part deported to Siberia. Among them many intellectuals and artists, who had already understood for some time how much culture had a delicate and central role also within the political system.
Introduced by Eugenia Gaglianone

Andrey Yurievich Khrzhanovsky (Mosca, 1939) is one of the most representative names in the long tradition of Soviet and Russian animation cinema. He made short and medium format films first with the state studio Soyuzmultfilm and later through “SHAR”, a studio-school he founded together with other masters in the sector and in which he teaches animation to the new generation. His second animated film “The Glass Harmonica”, from 1968, is counted as the first case of a censored animated product by the Soviet government. In 2009 he made the mixed media feature film “A Room and a Half”, inspired by the life of the famous poet Iosif Brodskij, which represents the first chapter of an ideal trilogy that focuses on the relationship between art and power, of which “The nose ”Is the second chapter. A third film is currently in pre-production. In March 2022, Khrzhanovsky was – together with other directors, technicians and artists of Russian and Ukrainian animation cinema – the signatory of a letter of dissent against the invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s government army.

EXHIBITIONS

h.6.30 pm – Church of San Giuseppe – free entry (22/27 August – opening time 6.30 pm/11.00 pm)
“NUNC” PERSONAL EXHIBITION OF VITO SAVINO

h.6.30 pm – Galleria Cattedrale – free entry (22/27 August – opening time h.6.00/h.11.00 pm)
VERNISSAGE EXHIBITONS OF  MARA CERRI, GIULIA PINTUS, QUASIROSSO, MAICOL & MIRCO 

h.09.30 pm – Cloister of St Benedict – Graduation Short Film Competition
The clearing by Daniel Hope (UK, 2021, 12’33)
The Immoral by Ekin Koca (France, 2021, 4’11)
The potter’s daughter by Edern Guichard (France, 2021, 8’52)
The uncertain snow by Marion Boisrond, Marie-Liesse Coumau, Gwendoline Legendre, Ada Hernaez, Romane Tisseau (France, 2021, 6’56)

h.10.00 pm – Cloister of St Benedict – International Short Film Competition
The Boob Fairy by Léahn Vivier-Chapas (France, 2022, 13′)
The Debutante by Elisabeth Hobbs (UK, 2022, 8’07)
The Garbage Man by Laura Gonçalves (Portugal, 2022, 11’50
The House of Loss by Jinkyu Jeon (Japan, 2022, 9’34)
The Umbrella by Claire Ledru (France, 2022, 15’30)
Two Sisters by Anna Budanova (France, 2021, 14’21)
Us by Nelson Fernandes (Portugal, 2021, 5′)

h.10.00 pm – Lemon Garden –retrospective –Florence Miailhe
Imaginaria assigns a “Special Career Award” to Florence Miailhe and presents the complete retrospective to the public to introduce the Italian public to one of the most important animators of the last 30 years, as well known at home and abroad as yet to be discovered in the area Italian.
Hammam (1991, France, 9’)
Schéhérazade (1995, France, 16’)
Histoire d’un prince devenu borgne et mendiant (1996, France, 16’)
Au Premier Dimanche d’Août (2001, France, 11’)
Les oiseaux blancs, les oiseaux noirs (2002, France, 4’)
Conte de Quartier (2005, France, 15’)
Méandres (2013, France, 23’)

h.11.15 pm – Cloister of St Benedict
AWARDS CEREMONY
In the presence of the Juries, prizes will be awarded for the respective competitive categories