Italian cinema and audiovisual artists and professionals have recently been the stars of three events at the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels.
In collaboration with Netflix, on 6 March the Institute hosted – as an international exclusive screening in a movie theatre – the first episode of the series “The Leopard”, inspired by the novel of the same name by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. The leading actors Kim Rossi Stuart and Benedetta Porcaroli were present. The evening was opened by the greetings of the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels, Prof. Pierre Di Toro; the Italian Ambassador to Belgium, Federica Favi and the Vice-President of Netflix Italy Eleonora Andreatta. After the screening, Francesca Carotti (Netflix Italy) moderated a talk with Kim Rossi Stuart, Benedetta Porcaroli and producer Fabrizio Donvito.
The exclusive premiere of the original series M. Il figlio del secolo, inspired by the best-sellers by Antonio Scurati and directed by Joe Wright, starring Luca Marinelli, took place on 5 February in collaboration with Sky. The screening of the first two episodes of the series was followed by a talk with Stefano Bises, who wrote the screenplay together with Davide Serino.
Last 27 January, on Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, the Institute also hosted the only performance abroad of the play ‘The Swimmer of Auschwitz’. With text and direction by Luca De Bei, Raoul Bova played both protagonists of a true story, namely the swimmer Alfred Nakache and the psychoanalyst Viktor Frankl, who were imprisoned in Auschwitz.
