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MANARA
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On the anniversary of Milo Manara’s eightieth birthday, Giornate degli Autori joins in on the celebrations for the artist who revolutionized comic book imagery. He has always had a dialogue with film, drawing scenes by hand. The film by Valentina Zanella, Manara, produced by K+ with support from the Veneto Region and the Veneto Film Commission, will be presented at the Accademia Gallery in Venice, while Milo Manara will meet Giornate audiences for an unmissable talk at the Casa degli Autori.
MANARA
Milo Manara has reinvented the imagery in comic strips, freeing women’s desires by means of the protagonists in his storyboards. His meeting with Hugo Pratt, a master of the genre and fellow traveler, was decisive to his own career, which explored the power of sex as a political act, culminating in the publication of Il gioco. His partnership with Federico Fellini redefined the borders between eroticism, cinema, and comics, and his unmistakable style as a draughtsman made him a model for entire generations.
Italy, 2025, color
direction
Valentina Zanella
screenplay
Tito Faraci
Federico Fava
Valentina Zanella
cinematography
Eleonora Castiello
editing
Nicola Bonaldo
sound
Andrea Guerrini (live sound)
Paolo Favarin (sound mix)
music
Stefano Brandoni
with
Milo Manara
Paolo Bacilieri
Boris Battaglia
Matteo Bussola
Paolo Conte
Gisèle De Haan
Elodie
Fumettibrutti
Jacques Glénat
Mario Gomboli
Tanino Liberatore
Vincenzo Mollica
Luisa Manara
Frank Miller
Nicola Piovani
Valeria Parrella
David Riondino
Fulvia Serra
Cristina Taverna
production
K+
producer
Nicola Fedrigoni
with the support of
Regione Veneto
with the backing of
Veneto Film Commission
Italian press office
Gabriele Barcaro
press@Gabrielebarcaro.it
Valentina Zanella has been the creative director of the production company K+ since 2009. Her many credits include Finché c’è prosecco c’è speranza. In 2022, she scripted Acqua e Anice, which screened at Giornate degli Autori. In 2023, she wrote and directed another doc, Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari, selected for the Rome Film Festival. In 2025, she made her feature directorial debut with Non è la fine del mondo, based on the novel of the same name by Alessia Gazzola.
