Moomin comic strip movie Tove at Chula

The “Chula World Film Series 2023” opens with a screening of Tove, at Dr Tiam Chokwadhana Auditorium, 3rd floor of Building 1 of the Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Phaya Thai Road, on Thursday at 5.30pm.

Directed by Zaida Bergroth, the Finnish movie is based on the life of Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish artist, author and comic strip writer, whose Moomin comic strips and books are hugely popular around the world.

Moomin books have been translated into nearly 50 languages, including Thai. At its peak, the Moomin comic strip appeared in more than 40 countries in 120 newspapers, with a daily readership of around 20 million, making…