The Programme
Ted, drôle de coco
with Émilie Gleason
with Aniss El Hamouri
Winner of the Prix Révelation 2019 at the Angoulême Festival, Ted, drôle de coco by Émilie Gleason is a journey in the daily life of Ted, a boy who is autistic. With her hyperdinamic drawing style and her clever use of comedy, Gleason depicts the limits of a society not ready to understand other perspectives and experiences.
Duration: 30m
supported by Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea, Canicola
Controspionaggio
with Luca Negri
chair Alessio Trabacchini
Who is Viktor Gaplinksy? He must have something to do with Aldo Cassino, responsible for a terrorist attack on Wall Street, and with a mysterious contract signed during WWII for some aircraft engines... Multiple identities, deaths, rebirths, and war plots are the ingredients of a graphic novel that plays with history following the tradition of postmodernist writers.
Duration: 30m
in partnership with Coconino Press – Fandango
Pregnancy Comic Journal
Diario a fumetti di una gravidanza inaspettatawith Sara Menetti
chair Elisabetta Mongardi
Pregnancy is an essentially intimate experience, and at the same time a terrain of continuous public, political, cultural debate. Sara Menetti described hers in a journal of unsettling honesty, which challenges the rhetorical narratives about pregnancy.
Duration: 30m
In collaboration with Feltrinelli Comics, Gender Bender
Tales of an Imaginary Dead Man
with Armin Barducci
chair Matteo Gaspari
From science-fiction to role-playing games, from time travel to medieval wars, Armin Barducci's Tales of an Imaginary Dead Mean crams all kinds of literary genres inside four different books inside a box. A playful, experimental way to - literally - deconstruct and reinvent the graphic novel format.
Duration: 30m
in partnership with Eris Edizioni