• The Valencian festival will reflect the connection between the event and its audience in its visual identity
• The selected artist has worked for international publications such as The New York Times and The Guardian, as well as brands including Apple, Quiksilver and Hermès

Cinema Jove, the International Film Festival of the Valencian Community organised by the Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities and promoted by the Institut Valencià de Cultura (IVC), has commissioned illustrator Álvaro Bernis (Madrid, 1983) to design the poster for its 41st edition.

The Director of Audiovisuals and Cinematography at the IVC, Luis Gosálbez, stated that Álvaro Bernis was selected “not only for his outstanding professional career in illustration and graphic design, but also because his work has a very dynamic aesthetic and spirit, which fits perfectly with this new stage of the festival.”

For her part, the director of Cinema Jove, María Albiñana, highlighted that “we want every spectator to feel like a protagonist.” Thanks to Álvaro Bernis’s work, “a gaze has been created that connects, that brings people together and that turns attending the festival into a shared, almost intimate experience, like that of a true community,” she explained.

Cinema Jove is characterised by being a meeting point between audiences and creators, where filmmakers themselves mingle with those attending the screenings.

For all these reasons, Álvaro Bernis meets the narrative needs of the festival’s visual identity, which has been part of Cinema Jove since its beginnings in the city of Valencia, and which allows for a close connection with the film industry.

Álvaro Bernis trained in illustration and comics at the Escuela Superior de Dibujo in Madrid, and in animation filmmaking at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His work has been published in international outlets such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic and The Guardian. He has also collaborated with brands such as Apple, Quiksilver and Hermès, and publishes his illustrations weekly in a column for The Economist.