WEDNESDAY 21 AUGUST
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Exhibitions
Castle of Conversano | Vernissage h.19.00 | Free Entry
Regina Pessoa and Abi Feijo with an unprecedented exhibition to celebrate 25 years of activity in animation cinema. The poetic imagination in the works of Roberto Catani. The sequential designed art by Alessandro Sanna. The illustrations with a strong social commitment linked to the Pencils x Riace initiative. The MAUA project between street art and new digital art contents in augmented reality.
– Regina Pessoa & Abi Feijo – 25 years of animation cinema
– Roberto Catani
– Alessandro Sanna
– Matite for Riace
– MAUA – Museum of Arts with augmented reality
The exhibition remains open from 20 to 24 August from 6.00 pm to 11.30 pm
Note: Pencils x Riace is a selection of 100 tables made by leading Italian illustrators and cartoonists and can be purchased at the entrance of the exhibition. The proceeds will go to support the fundraising #iostoconriace of the Re.Co.Sol – Network of Solidarity Municipalities.
Screenings – Animated Film Competition
h.21.00 Giardino dei Limoni (San Benedetto) | h.21.30 Chiostro dei Paolotti (Seminario Vescovile)
Ticket: 3€
Animated Short Film Int. Competition
Sister by Siqi Song (8’02 | China | 2018)
The Elephant’s Song by Lynn Tomlinson (7’38 | USA | 2018)
The Feather Pillow by Joseph Specker Nys (12’17, Brazil, 2018)
Carlotta’s Face by Valentin Riedl, Frédéric Schuld (5’ | Germany | 2018)
Hedge by Amanda Bonaiuto (6’05 | USA | 2018)
Entropia by Flóra Anna Buda (10’30, Hungary, 2019)
Ariel by Kleopatra Korai (2’25 | Greece | 2019)
Between the shadows by Alice Guimarães and Mónica Santos (13’25 | France / Portugal | 2018)
Giardino dei Limoni (San Benedetto) – h 22.00
Meeting with the author
The experimental animation cinema of Boris Labbè
Animated Student Short Film
Homesick by Hila Einy (7’15 | Israel | 2018)
The Porous Body by Sofia El Khyari (6’15 | France | 2018)
Inanimate by Lucia Bulgheroni (8’40 | UK | 2018)
Angel’s Trumpet by Martinus Klemet (2’15 | Estonia | 2019)
Good Intentions by Anna Mantzaris (09’ | UK | 2018)
h. 23.00 – Giardino dei Limoni (free entry)
Tito and the Birds by Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, Gustavo Steinberg (Brasile, 2018, 73’, V.O.S.I.)
Tito and the Birds is an extraordinary film about a boy and his journey to save the world from an “epidemic of fear”, in which people start to get sick if they suddenly get scared. Tito is a shy 10-year-old boy who lives a normal life that he spends with his two best friends, the struggles against school bullies at school and the presence of his neurotic mother at home. After the fright epidemic spreads, Tito starts searching for the antidote. He discovers that the cure is somehow linked to his father’s research, centered on the songs sung by birds. His father is in fact an inventor who had to leave his home when his son was only 6 years old. The search for the antidote thus also becomes the search for the deceased father as well as for his own identity. The film is both the discovery of the child about what is right and how to overcome one’s fears.
