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VERNISSAGE | IMAGINARIA EXHIBITION

6.00 pm | Diocesan Art Gallery – Church of S. Chiara – free admission (from 18 to 25 August – opening hours: 6.00pm-11.00pm)
The Imaginaria festival is pleased to host a collective of Italian illustrators of clear national and international fame thanks to the collaboration with the prestigious Caracol Gallery in Turin and the Illustration.it project curated by Federico Cano Correa.
The selected authors: Andrea Calisi, Giulia Pastorino, Fabio Consoli, Piero Macola, Francesco Chiacchio, Antonio Pronostico, Daniela Tieni, Valentina Tamburrano

SPECIAL OPENING CINE-CONCERT

10.00 pm | San Benedetto Complex “Lemon Garden”

DANIELE SEPE presents “Sepè le Mokò”

Daniele Sepe’s latest project entitled “Sepè le Mokò” arrives at the festival, and for the first time in Puglia, which will color the anarchist adventures designed by Totò with Jazz; a profound exploration of the music that appears in his filmography, a mare magnum where precious gems can be found even in the episodes least remembered by the chosen critics. The band is made up of Daniele Sepe, Paolo Zamuner, Roman Gomez, Antonello Iannotta and Massimo del Pezzo. For the occasion, Canadian artist Matthew Watkins will accompany the images with animated live painting interventions.

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IMAGINARIA EXHIBITION
6.00 pm | Diocesan Art Gallery – Church of S. Chiara – free admission (from 18 to 25 August – opening hours: 6.00pm-11.00pm)
The Imaginaria festival is pleased to host a collective of Italian illustrators of clear national and international fame thanks to the collaboration with the prestigious Caracol Gallery in Turin and the Illustration.it project curated by Federico Cano Correa.
The selected authors: Andrea Calisi, Giulia Pastorino, Fabio Consoli, Piero Macola, Francesco Chiacchio, Antonio Pronostico, Daniela Tieni, Valentina Tamburrano

IMAGINARIA KIDS LAB
h.4 pm| Sala Conferenze di San Benedetto
Animation film workshop and training Jury Kids

h.6.00 pm | Mondadori Bookstore in via G. Matteotti n.21 a Conversano
Immagin’Aria, in Terra, in Mare, in Scatola
by Florisa Sciannamea

IMAGINARIA MEETINGS
Meetings with the Authors

Do you want to get to know the festival guests more closely?
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 Terrazza di San Benedetto and will be assisted by interpreters for simultaneous translation

h.7.00 pm | Terrazza di San Benedetto
Meeting with Christian Arnau
Free Entry

SCREENINGS

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h.9 pm | Giardino dei Limoni | Children’s Short Film Competition
Baking With Boris by Maša Avramović (France, 2023, 8’15)
Bubbles by Lezhi Xiao (China, 2023, 7’35)
Carta Bianca by Francesca Marinelli (Italy, 2024, 13’)
Coot by Marlies van der Wel (Netherlands, 2023, 2’15)
Drop by Claudio Quattrone (Italy, 2024, 3’30)
Eclissi by Giulia Iaquinandi (Italy, 2023, 5’56)

h.9.40 pm | Giardino dei Limoni | Children Panorama
My friend robot by Pablo Berger (Spain/France, 2023, 90’)
DOG lives in Manhattan and, tired of always being alone, builds a robot. To the tune of Earth, Wind and Fire and the overwhelming New York music of the 1980s, their friendship blossoms and becomes ever deeper. Until one summer evening DOG finds himself forced to abandon ROBOT on the beach. Will the two friends be able to find each other again? From the award-winning Pablo Berger (Blancanieves), here in his debut in animated cinema, a story about the importance of friendship and its fragility celebrated at Cannes, awarded at Annecy and nominated for an Oscar as Best Animated Film.

h.9.00 pm | Chiostro di San Benedetto | Graduation Short Film and Music Video Competition
Between you and me by Cameron Kletke (Canada, 2023, 3’50)
Braided by Chenxi Zhang (USA, 2023, 6’19)
Breath (Souffle) by Marie Haas (France, 2024, 4’13)
Cherry, Passion Fruit by Renato José Duque (Portugal, 2024, 4’50)
Maybe Man (AJR) by Edoardo Ranaboldo (USA, 2023, 3’39)
Rapper’s Delight (Sugarhill Gang – Just Dance 2024) by Stéphane Berla (France, 2024, 3’15)

h.9.30 pm | Chiostro di San Benedetto | Career Honor

Special prize to the Italian artist Ursula Ferrara with the presentation of the complete retrospective.
Introduced by Elena Marcheschi (Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge – University of Pisa)

Ursula Ferrara is an internationally recognized artist among the most important exponents of Italian animation cinema. Author of eight short films between 1986 and 2006, small in length but large in terms of elaboration and complexity, she then ventured into digital productions and animated interventions for various film productions. She is self-taught, a weaver of images in long, patient and finely crafted work processes: her loving, acute and ironic look at life reveals, in a poetic and fantastic transposition that also compares with today, the nature of a avant-garde artist in the ancient manner. A cinema that convenes creative paths and genealogies, pictorial echoes, existential imaginaries recreated in metamorphoses of signs, shapes and colors that follow each other. Today she dedicates herself to ultra-large format photography, building her own “cameras”. The book written by Elena Marcheschi, the first Italian monograph dedicated to this artist, retraces the itinerary of her experimental production with analyzes and reflections that underline her original and unique character and that place her pioneering research at the crossroads of figurative, cultural and theorists.

Complete retrospective: Lucidi folli (1986), Congiuntivo futuro (1988), Amore asimmetrico (1990), Come persone (1995), Quasi niente (1997), Cinque stanze (1999), La partita (2002), News (2006). Estratti da alcuni lungometraggi: Chiocce (L’amore e basta di Stefano Consiglio, 2009), La Corsa (Pivano Blues – Sulla strada di Nanda di Teresa Merchesi, 2011), Laura Betti e P.P.Pasolini (La passione di Laura di Paolo Petrucci, 2011).

h.10.30 pm | Chiostro di San Benedetto | Main Competition International Short Film
Almost Forgotten by Dimitri Mihajlovic, Miguel Lima (Portugal, 2023, 9’07)
Anthéor by Patrice Joseph Blanc (France, 2023, 21’)
Aquatic by Shiva Sadegh Asadi (Iran, 2023, 5’)
Ashen Sun by Camille Monnier (France, 2023, 12’36)
Beautiful Men by Nicolas Keppens (Belgium, 2023, 18’35)
Butterfly by Suncana Brkulj (Croatia, 2024, 8’7)

IMAGINARIA KIDS LAB
h.4.00 pm | Sala Conferenze di San Benedetto
Animated cinema and Jury Kids training workshop

h.6.00 pm | Libreria Ikigai in via Cosimo Conte n.4 a Conversano
I MACCHIONAUTI “Avventure poetiche di disertori cosmici” by Tomas Di Terlizzi

IMAGINARIA MEETINGS
Meetings with the Authors

h. 7 pm| Terrazza di San Benedetto
Meeting with Iza Plucinska e Elena Marcheschi
Free Entry

SCREENINGS

h. 9.00 pm | Giardino dei Limoni | Children’s Short Film Competition
Ethel by Beatrice Jäggi (Switzerland, 2023, 8’)
Falling a park by Francesca Curaba, Christian Rosati (Italy, 2023, 8’22)
Filante by Marion Jamault (France, 2024, 8’49)
For You by Luca Paulli (UK, 2023, 3’33)
Freelance by Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego, Magnus I. Møller, Peter Smith (Denmark, 2024, 2’40)
Head in the Clouds by Rémi Durin (2023, France, 10’33)

h. 10.00 pm| Giardino dei Limoni | Retrospective of Jean-François Laguionie
Le Tableau by Jean-François Laguionie (2011, Francia, 76’)
The film tells the adventures of a group of characters who leave their paintings to go in search of the painter who created them. Made in mixed media, with two-dimensional animation sequences inserted into computer graphics settings, its production lasted five years.
Nominated for best animated film at the 37th edition of the César Awards

h. 9.30 pm | Chiostro di San Benedetto | Graduation Short Film and Music Video Competition
Dòma by Chiara Seveso (Italy, 2023, 4’)
Echoes by Robinson Drossos (France, 2024, 7’19)
Hooked on Illusions by Laura Isabel Schneider (Germany, 2023, 4’28)
I Wanna Be A Statue by Harvey Auerbach-Dunn (UK, 2023, 3’17)
Walking On The Planet (Gábor Antal Trio) by Tamara Bella, Gábor István Gurka, Kata Hollós, Kornél Pittmann (Hungary, 2023, 4’03)
I’m Leaving (Kinemus) by Michelle Brand (Germany, 2023, 3’34)

h. 10.00 pm | Chiostro di San Benedetto – Career Honor
Special prize for the animated art of Polish director Izabela Plucinska and for the occasion the complete retrospective will be presented.

Studnia (Poland / 1999 / 2 min., Color, no dialogues)
Dubler (Poland / 2001 / 3 min., Color, no dialogues))
Po drugiej stronie (Poland / 2002 / 4 min., Color, no dialogues)
Jam Session (Germany, Poland, 2005, 10 min., Color, V.O., sub. it.)
Sniadanie (Poland / 2006 / 2 min. no dialogues)
7 More Minutes (Germany, Poland / 2007 / 8 min., Colore, no dialogues))
Marathon – by Izabela Plucinska and Spela Cadež (Polonia, Germania / 2008 / 5 min., Color, no dialogues)
Esterhazy (Poland, Germany / 2009 / 25 min., Color, V.O., sub. it./en.)
Josette und ihr Papa (Germany / 2010 / 8 min., Color, V.O., sub. it.)
Popoludnie (Germany, Poland / 2012 / 3 min., Color, no dialogues))
Liebling (Poland, Germany / 2013 / 7 min., Color, V.O., sub. it.)
Sexy Laundry (Canada, Germany, Poland / 2015 / 12 min., Color, V.O., sub. it.)
Abend (Germany, Poland / 2016 / 3 min., Color, no dialogues))
Portrait en pied de Suzanne (Poland, France, Germany / 2019 / 15 min., Color, V.O., sub. it.)

h. 11.00 pm | Chiostro di San Benedetto | Main Competition International Short Film
Joko by Izabela Plucińska (Poland, 2024, 15’32)
Circle by Yumi Joung (Republic of Korea, 2024, 6’50)
Extremely Short by Koji Yamamura (Japan, 2024, 5’18)
Flower Show by Elli Vuorinen (Finland, 2023, 8’31)
Fracti by Lavinia Petrache (Switzerland, 2023, 5’34)
It shouldn’t rain tomorrow by Maria Trigo Teixeira (Germany, 2024, 11’30)

IMAGINARIA KIDS LAB
h. 4.00 pm| Sala Conferenze di San Benedetto
Animated cinema and Jury Kids training workshop

h.6 pm | Libreria Ikigai in via Cosimo Conte n.4 a Conversano
METAFORE – Laboratorio di scritture creative: parole come immagini, immagini come parole.
by A. Chiara Scardicchio

IMAGINARIA MEETINGS
Meetings with the Authors

h. 7.00 pm | Terrazza di San Benedetto
Meeting with Eric Rittatore, Pierpaolo Di Camillo, Joanna Frezu de Azevedo and Elena Marcheschi
Free Entry

SCREENINGS

h. 9.30 pm | Giardino dei Limoni | Children’s Short Film Competition
Impossible Maladies by Stefano Tambellini, Alice Tambellini (Italy, 2023, 8’)
Laika, Brave Dog by Francesco Catarinolo (Italy, 2024, 8’10)
Let’s Play by Marzieh Rasekh (Netherlands, 2024, 4’40)
Little Hiccups by Fitriani Revanda (Australia, 2023, 2’13)
Luki and the Lights by Toby Cochran (USA, 2023, 10’40)
Memory Rental Store by Kyungin Kim, Jaeyeon Kim, Shruti Lal, Surya Kalyan, Jiaxin Li (France, 2023, 6’57)

h. 10.00 pm | Giardino dei Limoni | Retrospettiva Jean-François Laguionie
Louise en Hiver by Jean-François Laguionie (2016, France, 75’)
At the end of summer, the last train of the season departs from the seaside resort of Biligen leaving behind Louise, a tender old lady. The city is now deserted and Louise finds herself completely alone, except for the dog Pepe. In a context that is becoming more and more surreal, Louise returns to relive her childhood and the most significant moments of her life (the move to her grandmother during the Second World War, her first loves, etc.), rereading them with new eyes.

h. 9.30 pm | Chiostro di San Benedetto | Graduation Short Film and Music Video Competition
I Am Here by Cheyenne Goudswaard (Netherlands, 2023, 5’)
In Loving Memories by John Eaton (UK, 2023, 7’42)
Is this now the time I should let you go? by Yi-Chin Tsai (Taiwan, 2023, 9’)
Little hot water bottle by Yuliana Brutti (Argentina, 2023, 8’13)
In a Time Warp (Shuteen Erdenebaatar) by Anh Tú Nguyen (Germany, 2023, 6’30)
Fiore Mio (Andrea Laszlo De Simone) by Viola Mancini (Italy, 2023, 3’54)

h.22.15 | Chiostro di San Benedetto | Main Competition International Short Film
Luna Rossa by Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn (Estonia, 2024, 32’35)
La Voix des Sirènes by Gianluigi Toccafondo (Italy, 2023, 19’40)
Maurice’s Bar by Tzor Edery, Tom Prezman (France, 2023, 15’)
Miserable Miracle by Ryo Orikasa (Japan, 2023, 8’13)
Next? by Christel Guibert (France, 2024, 9’)
On Hold by Delia Hess (Switzerland, 2024, 7’)
Papillon (Butterfly) by Florence Miailhe (France, 2024, 15’)
Projections #2 – Water? – Collective animated film by various authors (Italy, 2023, 7’40)
[S] by Mario Radev (UK, 2024, 12’30)
Shoes and Hooves by Viktória Traub (Hungary, 2023, 14’53)
Society of Clothes by Dahee Jeong (France, 2024, 15’09)
Stuffed by Louise Labrousse (France, 2024, 10’27)

IMAGINARIA KIDS LAB
h.4.00 pm – Sala Conferenze di San Benedetto
Animation film workshop and training Jury Kids

h.6.00 pm – Chiostro Biblioteca Marangelli
Ma che storia è? (Edizioni Clichy, Sergio Olivotti)
by Ciurma – Libreria per bambini di Taranto

IMAGINARIA MEETINGS
Meetings with the Authors

h. 7.00 pm – Terrazza di San Benedetto
Meeting with Sofia El Khiari, Viola Mancini and Margherita Giusti
Free Entry

SCREENINGS

h. 9.00 pm – Giardino dei Limoni – Children’s Short Film Competition
Mog’s Christmas by Robin Shaw (UK, 2023, 23’05)
Monster by Piers Goffart, Eric Giessmann (Germany, 2024, 4’51)
Papa Bouteille by Lucie Carraz, Eleonore Deprun, Lalita Bruguiere, Clement Bretou, Pierre Étienne Mazet, Fred Marcassoli (France, 2023, 7’49)
Scrubby by Paul Vollet (Germany, 2023, 6’33)
Swimming With Wings by Daphna Awadish Golan (Netherlands, 2023, 10’40)
The Alchemist’s Apprentice by Erfan Parsapour (Iran, 2024, 6’48)

h. 10.00 pm – Giardino dei Limoni – Retrospective of Jean-François Laguionie
Le vojage du prince di Jean-François Laguionie (France/Luxembourg, 2019, 77’)
In a world where apes speak and live like humans, an elderly primate is found on a beach: he is injured, lost, and above all he comes from another world and is the fallen prince of an unknown population. Considered a precious subject of study, the old man is taken into custody and hidden by little Tom and his parents, two researchers who have always been convinced of the existence of other intelligent life forms and are therefore excluded from the very rigid academy of sciences. As the days pass, a deep relationship is born between the “prisoner” and the child, which will lead both to escape from the study and venture into the big city.

h. 9.30 pm – Chiostro di San Benedetto – Graduation Short Film and Music Video Competition
Mary: Through Glass by Wyatt Carson (USA, 2023, 7’05)
Minus Plus Multiply by Chu-Chieh Lee (UK, 2023, 4’10)
Morgane by Lilou Massouty (France, 2023, 2’20)
Moving Mountains by Jessica Poon (Germany, 2024, 5’55)
Mind Replacer (KBSNK) by Tarafu Otani (Japan, 2024, 1’55)
Monsters (Coline Rio) by Iulia Voitova (France, 2023, 3’54)

h. 10.00 pm – Chiostro di San Benedetto – Career Honor
The festival gives special recognition to the animated art of the French master Jean-François Laguionie
The meeting will be supported by Christian Arnau (École européenne supérieure de l’image Angoulême-Poitiers) and by Ahmed Neb Nessib.

h. 10.30 pm – Chiostro di San Benedetto
A Boat In The Garden (Slocum et Moi) by Jean-François Laguionie
(Luxembourg, France, 2024, 75’ – V.O.S.I.) – Italian Premiere
Production company: JPL Productions, Mélusine Productions
1950s, France, on the quiet banks of the Marne river. François, a dreamy child with a vivid imagination, sees his life change when his father decides to start building a boat in the garden: a replica of Joshua Slocum’s ship, the first navigator to sail around the world alone !… Between his father’s dream and the true feat of this great sailor, François will prefer his own adventures…

Festivals & Awards
Cannes Official Selection 2024 – Cinéma de la Plage
Annecy 2024 – Official Selection – Competition

IMAGINARIA KIDS LAB
h.4.00 pm | Sala Conferenze di San Benedetto
Animated cinema and Jury Kids training workshop

h.6.00 pm | libreria Mondadori in via G.Matteotti n.21 a Conversano
Il Mare a pezzi – Laboratorio artistico by Angela Perrini

h.6.00 pm| Chiostro Biblioteca Marangelli
Chissà se oggi incontrerò il lupo (Valentina edizioni, Cristina Petit)
Animated reading by Ciurma libreria per bambini of Taranto

IMAGINARIA MEETINGS
Meetings with the Authors

h.7.00 pm | Terrazza di San Benedetto
Meeting with Xavier Kawa Topor

SCREENINGS

h. 9.00 pm | Giardino dei Limoni | Children’s Short Film Competition
The Bear and the Bird by Marie Caudry (France, 2024, 25’35)
To the kindergarten, la la la by Kajetan Łukasz Pochylski (Poland, 2024, 8’20)
Turduck-in by Sydney Christensen (USA, 2024, 2’23)
Ummi and Zaki by Daniela Opp (Germany, 2024, 4’21)
What’s inside that crate? by Bram Algoed (Belgium, 2023, 9’)

h. 10.00 pm| Giardino dei Limoni | Retrospective of Jean-François Laguionie
Le chateau des singes by Jean-François Laguionie (France, UK, Germany, Hungary, 1999, 80’)
Following a cataclysm, the monkey population finds itself divided in two. Some of the survivors retreated to live in the treetops. The others found refuge on the banks of a lake, in the shade of the plants. Those at the top speak ill of those at the bottom and vice versa. One day, the young Korn monkey, more curious and courageous than the others, decides to go down and see for himself.

h.9.30 pm | Chiostro di San Benedetto | Graduation Short Film and Music Video Competition
Teenage rain by Maria Savenkova (Russian Federation, 2024, 5’01)
The Girl Who Lived in the Loo by Subarna Dash (India, 2023, 12’17)
The Wasteland by Timotej Lukovič (Slovakia, 2023, 9’28)
To Be a Seed by Julia Granillo Tostado (Belgium,2023,5’45)
Moral Support (Laibach) by Vuk Jevremovic (Germany, 2024, 4’21)
My Mother (Célestin) by Chaïtane Conversat (France, 2023, 3’16)

h.10.10 pm | Chiostro di San Benedetto | Main Competition – International Short Film
The Meatseller by Margherita Giusti (Italy, 2023, 17’)
Sweeter is the night by Fabienne Wagenaar (France, 2024, 18’25)
Sweet Like Lemons by Jenny Jokela (UK, 2023, 5’31)
Tennis, Oranges by Sean Pecknold (USA, 2024, 10’53)
The Change Of The Wheel by Begoña Arostegui (Spain, 2024, 9’)
Supersilly by Veronica Martinadonna (France, 2024, 9’)

Imaginaria Kids Lab
h.6.00 pm | Libreria Ikigai in via Cosimo Conte n.4 a Conversano
IL QUADERNO DELL’ESPLORATORE – Laboratorio per costruirsi il kit di sopravvivenza creativa
by Massimiliano Stefàno

IMAGINARIA MEETINGS
Meetings with the Authors

h. 7.00 pm – Terrazza di San Benedetto
Meeting with Jean François Laguionie

SCREENINGS

h.9.00 pm | Giardino dei Limoni | Awards Ceremony of the Children Short Competition category

The young jury: Filippo Panessa, Mattia Turi, Sara Longo, Francesco Suglia, Paolo Laghezza, Raffaella Pesole, Manuela, Flavia Cicorella, Paola Sportelli, Serena Aquilino, Francesco Gasparro, Alessandro Darconza, Pietro Luisi, Silvia D’Accolti, Alessia Campanella, Fabio Basile, Micaela Amenduni, Emma Lasorella, Emma Daddabbo e Aurora Pace will award the prize to the best short film in the competition in the “Children Short Film” category.
The award ceremony will be preceded by the viewing of the short film made during the animated cinema workshop conducted by Beatrice Mazzone

h.10.00 pm – Giardino dei Limoni – Children’s Panorama
A Boat In The Garden (Slocum et Moi) by Jean-François Laguionie
(Luxembourg, France, 2024, 75’ – V.O.S.I.) – Italian Premiere
1950s, France, on the quiet banks of the Marne river. François, a dreamy child with a vivid imagination, sees his life change when his father decides to start building a boat in the garden: a replica of Joshua Slocum’s ship, the first navigator to sail around the world alone !… Between his father’s dream and the true feat of this great sailor, François will prefer his own adventures…

Festivals & Awards
Cannes Official Selection 2024 – Cinéma de la Plage
Annecy 2024 – Official Selection – Competition

h.9.30 pm – Chiostro di San Benedetto – Graduation Short Film and Music Video Competition
Unicorn Lady by Rebecca Rechana Paul (India, 2024, 4’45)
Windows From The South by Eugen Bilankov (Croatia, 2024, 5’)
My way (SIAMES & Barbie Williams) by Jesica Bianchi (Argentina, 2024, 3’21)
The Hours (João Grilo) by Marta Reis Andrade, Marta Sousa Ribeiro (Portugal, 2023, 4’04)
Time Settles (Conil) by Julia Gromskaya (Italy, 2024, 3’25)

h.10.00 pm – Chiostro di San Benedetto – Main Competition International Short Film
The Miracle by Nienke Deutz (Belgium, 2023, 14’58)
The Wild-Tempered Clavier by Anna Samo (Germany, 2024, 7’20)
Three Birds by Zarja Menart (Slovenia, 2024, 8’18)
Volcelest by Eric Briche (France, 2023, 14’33)
Wander to Wonder by Nina Gantz (Belgiu, 2023, 13’20)
Žarko, You Will Spoil the Child! by Milivoj Popović, Veljko Popović (Croatia/France, 2024, 13’37)

h. 11.15 pm – Chiostro di San Benedetto
IMAGINARIA AWARDS
In the presence of the three juries of the Main Competition, Graduation Short Competition, Music Video and Children Short Competition categories, the respective prizes and special mentions will be awarded.
Some of the winners will be present to receive their prizes.

h.10.00 pm – Giardino dei Limoni | Closing Party
Live set con Argoritmo + Norbeat