The Festival

The Festival Cartoon Club is one of Italy’s longest-running and most beloved festivals dedicated to animated cinema, comics, and pop culture. Founded in 1985 by the ACLI Arte e Spettacolo association, APS Rimini. The festival is a cultural project that combines education, art, social commitment, and entertainment through its Pop section: RiminiComix.

The Festival Cartoon Club is one of Italy’s longest-running and most beloved festivals dedicated to animated cinema, comics, and pop culture. Founded in 1985 by the ACLI Arte e Spettacolo association and APS Rimini, the festival is a cultural project that combines education, art, social commitment, and entertainment through its Pop section: RiminiComix.

Rimini is a perfect location for an outdoor summer festival, with events held in its iconic venues: museums, theaters, but especially squares, courtyards, and even the beach.

Every year, in the heart of the Rimini summer, the festival transforms the city into a widespread stage animated by screenings, meetings, exhibitions, shows, and participatory activities aimed at a broad and diverse audience. It welcomes fans, artists, professionals, students, families, and tourists for an immersive and varied cultural experience.

At the heart of the festival lies visual storytelling in all its forms: animated films, graphic novels, illustration, performances, meetings, and games become tools to tell stories, convey emotions, reflect on society, and imagine the future.

Throughout its long history, it has brought to Rimini the best authors and productions from the world of animated cinema and comics.

With its universal language made of images, stories, and colors, Cartoon Club and RiminiComix speak to everyone, stimulate reflection, build bridges between generations, and promote culture and passions.