What is the International Political Satire Festival?

Forte dei Marmi is unanimously considered the capital of political satire: more than 35.000 visitors every year, more than 200 cartoonists from different countries participate in the exhibition.

All the best Italian cartoonists were awarded here: Altan , Forattini, Pino Zac, Pericoli e Pirella, Chiappori, Staino, Giuliano ... as well as cartoonists from France (Claude Serre, Kerleroux, Tignous, Tim), from Great Britain ( Ralph Steadman, A. Krauze), from the U.S.A. (David Levine, Jules Feiffer, Garry B. Trudeau, Pat Oliphant), and from many other countries, such as Poland, Turkey, Argentina, Spain, Russia ecc..

Famous Italian writers such as Sciascia, Del Buono, Campanile, artists such as: Benigni, Arbore, Fo, Sciascia, Montanelli, Zavattini, Del Buono, Campanile, Maccari, Moretti, Ghezzi, Ricci, Gino e Michele, Maltese, Guglielmi, Chiambretti e molti altri...

The International Political Satire Festival is a multi-media event (with exhibitions, cabaret shows, meetings and activities such as research or publisher's work) which ends every year with the awarding of prizes, chosen by a Jury composed of experts and journalists.

• This "Prize" was created in 1973 and it is still today a quite unique event for the research and spread of satire in all its different aspects. The Festival organizers work all the year and export exhibitions to other towns in Italy or abroad.
  • The Festival's organization cooperates with the main International Cartoon Festival and with the most famous satirical magazines in the world, one for all "Le Canard enchainé". Always in search of new frontiers the Festival is now also available on the World Wide Web..

Who are the organizers,
the partecipants
and where and when
does it takes place.

The Political Satire Festival and Prize is promoted by the Municipality of Forte dei Marmi, the Region of Tuscany and the Province of Lucca.

In the Festival exhibitions we find the most important cartoonists from all over the world, with a selection of their best works in the year. Prizes go not only to cartoonists, though, but also to journalists, writers or people from the world of cinema, theatre, TV.

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