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Literary Hangouts
Bref presents three events that venture into the world of punk
Plus Café
Aprile 23 2026 - 7.00 p.m.
Plus Café
April 24 2026 - 7.00 p.m.
Plus Café
April 25 2026 - 7.00 p.m.
If cinema tells stories through images, literature paints with words. Bref presents three events that venture into the world of punk publishing and introduce two authors capable of offering powerful portraits of human experience. The events are organized in collaboration with BrivioDue and moderated by Cecilia Lazzarotto.
Aprile 23 2026 - 7.00 p.m.
Plus Café
Marotta&Calfiero
Maggie Borrelli
A group of Neapolitan kids opens a bookstore in Scampia at the height of a Camorra feud. Kids who become “book dealers.” Where drugs were once sold, books are now passed hand to hand. This is the story of Marotta & Cafiero Editori, of the Scugnizzeria, and of a proudly Southern publishing house rooted in Scampia, capable of publishing authors such as Stephen King and Daniel Pennac. No one believed in it. But they didn’t leave. They imagined a book in every home in Scampia, stayed, and built a project that would go on to be featured in The Guardian. A completely different story — told by Maggie Borrelli.
April 24 2026 - 7.00 p.m.
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La Bestia di Bolzano
Stefano Cantone
Michael Seifert is an ordinary man. H e has a job, a family, attends church. Y et in the late 1990 s, he receives a notice at his home in V ancouver : the Military Prosecutor ’s O ffice of V erona has opened a case against him. H e is accused of extremely serious crimes — torture and murder — committed between 1944 and 1945 in the Bolzano transit camp. After the war, apartment blocks were built where the camp once stood, perhaps to erase a painful past. And yet, sixty years later, a prosecutor reopens the case, leading to the conviction of the man many knew as the “Butcher of Bolzano. ” Moderated by Cecilia Lazzarotto.
April 25 2026 - 7.00 p.m.
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Buongiorno Amore Terribile
Lorenzo Palloni
A collection of sixteen stories about relationships and absences : sixteen short comic tales exploring broken promises, lies, manipulation, fake passions, and real desires, from a stone thrown into water to a cigarette outside a hospital, from galactic- scale patriarchy to medieval emotional abandonment. Crimes of the soul with a single culprit and a single victim, perhaps impossible to forgive : always ourselves.
Commercial manager of Marotta & Cafiero and organizer of
festivals such as BISS – Book Into Street Secondigliano and SeFF
– Secondigliano Film Festival.
Maggie Borrelli
Author and publisher. H is works include # Antifa ( Fandango, 2018)
and, with People, Camminare (2019) , 1943 (2021) , La bestia di
Bolzano (2022) , and Dizionario Antifa (2023) . In 2024 , he edited
U niti nella stessa lotta, illustrated by Tommaso Catone.
Stefano Cantone
Comic artist and writer, he is one of the founders of the Mammaiuto
collective and of the comics journalism magazine La R evue.
Awarded for his screenwriting, he teaches storytelling and has
worked on Dylan Dog. H e has published over thirty works, including
graphic novels and short story collections, with editions released in
Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, China, Croatia, and Poland.