Japan Media Arts Festival will present a special talk and animation screening in the comic book library of the KULTURHUSET in Stockholm.

KULTURHUSET (Stockholm, Sweden)
The KULTURHUSET in Stockholm is a library of children’s comics which has been collecting, conserving and providing access to Swedish comics ever since it opened in 1966. It has hosted the annual Stockholm International Comics Festival – an exhibition and sales event for self-published comics and small lot comics – every April since 1999. It also holds regular events through the year to introduce comics and animations from around the world. 
(Official website, KULTURHUSET http://kulturhuset.stockholm.se/Serieteket/)

Talk & Screening
In Sweden, a country which has produced many famous comic book authors, Japan Media Arts Festival will present a talk on the theme, ‘Anime and Manga as Media Arts’. The speaker, Professor Berndt of Kyoto Seika University, will examine the relationship between comics and cartoons in contemporary Japanese culture, referring to both comics that have been made into cartoons and cartoons turned into novels. Six past award winners of Japan Media Arts Festivals’ Animation Division will be screened after the talk.

Japan Media Arts Festival Presents: Anime and Manga as Media Arts
Time & Date: 18:30~ Thursday, 28th November
Venue: BIBLIOTEK FILM & MUSIC, KULTURHUSET
Speaker: Jaquline BERNDT (Full Professor in Comics/Manga Theory at Kyoto Seika University)

Screened Works:
Fumiko’s Confession, ISHIDA Hiroyasu (Excellence Award at Japan Media Arts Festival 2011)
The Messenger from the Sea, nosferatu (Jury Selections at Japan Media Arts Festival 2011)
PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA (Digest Reel), SHIMBŌ Akiyuki (Grand Prize at Japan Media Arts Festival 2012)
COMBUSTIBLE, OTOMO Katsuhiro (Grand Prize at Japan Media Arts Festival 2013)
KICK-HEART, YUASA Masaaki
She and her cat, SHINKAI Makoto

Manga Division Award Winners Viewing Area
A corner will also be set up for viewing 22 past award winners in the Manga Division together with panel displays introducing the Japan Media Arts Festival.

Dates: Thursday, 28th November – Saturday, 28th December
Venue: BIBLIOTEK FILM & MUSIC, KULTURHUSET