IN THE NAME OF MARA CERRI

October, 1 – 6, Cinema Massimo, Via Giuseppe Verdi 18
Every day from 3 pm to 11 pm

In collaboration with Rivista del Cinematografo

Fifteen are the works showing Mara Cerri?s poetic side, author of the image symbol of the fifth edition of JFD. A passionate research that follows and stops on the page ?unusual correspondences between pictures and words?. Thirteen among these works are pieces that Mara Cerri made for Rivista del Cinematografo, the first monthly Italian newspaper entirely dedicated to cinema. It was founded in January 1928.

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MARA CERRI

Born in Pesaro in 1978, she is considered one of the most talented artists in our country. An illustrator and author of animated films, she teaches animated short films at the Urbino ISIA. She has dedicated herself to illustration driven by the curiosity to search for correspondences between words and images and her poetic trait can be found in the books of major Italian publishers.
In 2020, she created the poster for the Turin International Book Fair, while for the director Alice Rohrwacher she created the illustration for the poster of the movie ‘Lazzaro felice‘.
In animation cinema, she is co-author with Magda Guidi of two short films: ‘Via Curiel 8?’(First Prize short film Italy, 2011 Turin Film Festival) and ‘Sogni al campo’ (selected for the Orizzonti section of the 2020 Venice Film Biennale).
She made the animations for the documentary ‘Ferrante Fever’ by Giacomo Durzi.
She is co-author with Nadia Terranova of the book ?’l Segreto’ published by Mondadori Ragazzi, winner of the 2022 Andersen Prize and the 2022 Strega Ragazzi Prize category 8+.
She is the author of the drawings for the graphic novel ‘L’amica geniale’ published by Coconino Press with a screenplay by Chiara Lagani, a comic strip transposition of Elena Ferrante’s novel (Edizioni e/o publish house), currently forthcoming in several countries.

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THE RIVISTA DEL CINEMATOGRAFO

The Rivista del Cinematografo is the oldest Italian periodical entirely dedicated to cinema. It was founded in January 1928, the same year that sound was born, to coordinate the activities of parish cinemas.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the magazine was renewed and expanded with an important number of regular contributors, including Mario Verdone, Gian Luigi Rondi, Paolo di Valmarana and Ugo Sciascia. From the 1960s onwards, the newspaper opened to cinema coming from Communist countries and to breakthrough cinema such as that of Pier Paolo Pasolini. While in the 1980s, under the direction of Sergio Trasatti, it changed its approach as a periodical closely linked to the Catholic world, aiming at newsstand sales and reaching a wider audience.
Finally, in the 1990s, the Rivista del Cinematografo presented itself with a renewed graphic look, becoming completely in colour, and the Cinematografo.it website was created (1994), where a database with films produced and distributed in Italy and abroad, from the 1920s to the present day, is available.
The Magazine contains in-depth reports on upcoming films, interviews with actors, directors and writers, monographic and retrospective specials, focuses dedicated to specific themes in the world of cinema, as well as curiosities, previews and reports from national and international festivals.
Since 2005, the editorial staff of the Rivista del Cinematografo has presented the Cinematografo Awards.
Rivista del Cinematografo has been designated the best Italian film magazine by the historic Cahiers du Cinéma. Its editorial staff is present at the most important international festivals (Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Rome, Turin, Giffoni), while also being media partner of the David di Donatello Academy.