Euganea Film Festival: a dragonfly that moves, a new artist every year
The logo of the Euganean Hills film festival and, since 2018, the art direction that hands the festival’s image to a different artist every year.
In short
Euganea Film Festival is the film festival of the Colli Euganei (the Euganean Hills, near Padua, Italy), founded in 2002 and reaching its 25th edition in 2026. Since 2018 Opificio Lamantini Anonimi has handled its brand, website and art direction: a striped dragonfly designed to move and, every year, a different illustrator, from Elisa Vendramin to Mara Cerri, for the festival’s image.
Project facts
- Client
- Euganea Movie Movement — Euganea Film Festival
- Location
- Monselice (Padua, Italy), festival in the Euganean Hills
- Sector
- Culture, cinema, festivals
- Festival
- Founded in 2002
- Period
- Since 2018 (17th edition) – ongoing
- Services
- Restyling of the original logo, family of marks, yearly art direction, posters and campaigns, website, animation, merchandise
- Website
- euganeafilmfestival.it
The festival was born in 2002, when the only cinema in the Euganean Hills closed. We arrived in 2018. We kept its dragonfly and taught it to move. Since then, every summer, a different artist builds a new world around it.
The starting point
Where was Euganea Film Festival starting from?
From a festival born in response to the closure of the only cinema in the Euganean Hills. It is run by Euganea Movie Movement, in Monselice, the same town as Opificio. And it already had a symbol: a dragonfly.
On the left, the dragonfly from the original logo. On the right, the same dragonfly, redrawn in stripes.
How do you design the logo for a film festival?
You start from what was already there. The original dragonfly, redrawn in stripes: slide a grid across it and it beats its wings.
At the February 2021 presentation we put three routes on the table: work on the typeface, a single-line mark, a moving image. The third one won.
The dragonfly is redrawn with horizontal stripes, like the scan lines of an image. It is not a whim: the logo is designed for scanimation, the optical technique in which a grid of lines sliding over a drawing makes it move. The nature of the hills and the language of cinema, in the same mark.
The dragonfly in motion and, on the right, the striped drawing the animation comes from.
Isolating the movement
The frames of the wingbeat
The other routes
Typeface and single line, from the same presentation · scroll →
How does an identity grow when the association grows?
With the same language and different subjects. An eye for the solar cinema, a wheel for the bike, always made of stripes.
The dragonfly technique becomes a system for Euganea Movie Movement’s projects. Euganea Movie Movement, Solar Cinema, BIKE2021: each has its own subject, all are made of stripes and all can move.
Over the years the family has grown. The latest arrival is the Euganea Film Residency.
Eye and spokes
The moving options, from the 2021 presentation
The logo in blue
Reversed versions and festival objects
Euganea Film Residency
Logo, pattern and 2026 open call
How do you renew a festival without losing what makes it recognisable?
Every year we choose an artist and give them room. Our job is to find them, and then hold everything else together.
Every edition starts from a concept. Then comes the choice of artist, Italian or international, the art direction, the poster and all its adaptations: banners, covers, social media, objects. The logo stays. The image changes.
The logo holds the editions together. The artists make each one unrepeatable.
2018 · 17th edition
Illustration by Elisa Vendramin
2019 · 18th edition
Illustration by Sonia Ligorio
2020 · 19th edition
The edition’s visual
2021 · 20th edition
Illustration by Luca Tagliafico
2022 · 21st edition
Poster animation by Lorenzo Mercanti
2023 · 22nd edition
Illustration by Daniele Simonelli
2024 · 23rd edition
Illustration by Anna Marzuttini
The 2024 concept is Multiversi (Multiverses): a plant that grows pods, and inside each pod a different world. Like cinema, which shows us other ways of looking.
From the concept presentation, May 2024: the two routes, Strati di sedimentazione (Layers of sediment) and Multiversi, and the first tests of the plant.
The 2024 adaptations: website banners and social media covers, with the illustration by Anna Marzuttini.
2025 · 24th edition
Illustration by Elisa Talentino
Reitia, the goddess of the ancient Veneti worshipped in Este, in Elisa Talentino’s illustration. From the poster to the tote bag.
2026 · 25th edition
Illustration by Mara Cerri
What does a festival need beyond its image?
A place to find everything: programme, films, venues, awards. And the archive of every edition.
The euganeafilmfestival.it website brings together the programme, films, events, venues, jury and awards. Every year it changes its skin with the edition’s image, and it keeps the archive of past editions.
And, behind the scenes, a management system built over time.
The website covers in 2024, with the illustration by Anna Marzuttini.
The Euganean Hills drawn in contour lines.
Frequently asked questions
Euganea Film Festival and Opificio, in short.
Who created the Euganea Film Festival logo?
Opificio Lamantini Anonimi, which also handles its yearly art direction and built the euganeafilmfestival.it website.
What does the Euganea Film Festival logo represent?
A dragonfly, taken from the festival’s original logo and redrawn in horizontal stripes, designed to move using the scanimation technique.
Who designs the Euganea Film Festival posters?
A different illustrator every year, Italian or international, with art direction by Opificio Lamantini Anonimi. The artists include Elisa Vendramin, Sonia Ligorio, Luca Tagliafico, Daniele Simonelli, Anna Marzuttini, Elisa Talentino and Mara Cerri.
Does Opificio Lamantini Anonimi work with festivals and cultural events?
Yes. Since 2018 it has worked on the logo, art direction and website for Euganea Film Festival, the film festival of the Euganean Hills.