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THURSDAY 22 AUGUST

Mostre / 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
The Hunt by Mateusz Jarmulski (8′ | Poland | 2018)
The blue of salt by Alice Bohl (10′ | France | 2019)
Reneepoptosis by Renee Zhan (9’55 | USA | 2018)
The Person in Crevice by Lu Tingting (3’49 | China | 2018)
The boy and the owl by Mário Gajo de Carvalho (12’18 | Portugal | 2018)
Passage by Anja Sidler (7′ | Switzerland | 2019)
The Rain by Piotr Milczarek (5′ | Poland | 2019)
Le nozze di Pollicino by Beatrice Pucci (6’ | Italy | 2018)

Animated Student Short Film
Grand Bassin by Héloïse Courtois, Chloé Plat, Victori Jalabert, Adèle Raigneau (06’37 | France | 2018)
Hors Piste by Léo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, Oscar Malet (06’01 | France | 2018)
The taste of loneliness by Laura Passalacqua (01’57 | France | 2018)
Do not Touch! by Pavel Endrle (49″ |  Poland | 2018)
Sweet Sweat by Jung Hyun Kim (6’13 | Estonia | 2018)

Giardino dei Limoni – h.22.30
The Tower by Mats Grorud (80’ , Norvegia/Francia/Svezia, 2018, VOSI)
Wardi is an eleven-year-old girl, very curious and cheerful, who lives in a camp for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Her grandfather Sidi has decided to sacrifice himself to guarantee a future for her and all her family. This gesture of love and courage leads Wardi to ask himself many questions about his life and the history of his people. Is there hope for the future? Will there ever be a chance to live a normal existence?
Meeting with the author Mats Grorud

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