Canada – Cinema, Paola Cortellesi and Christian De Sica super-guest stars at the ICFF
The 2017 edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF), the festival offering the best of Italian film productions in six Canadian cities from 8 to 16 June, is due to set new box-office records. In addition to Toronto, Montreal and the other cities involved in the previous editions, this year the ICFF will extend […]
Read moreFinland – Composer Antonio Coppola to perform in Helsinki in May
The Italian composer and orchestra conductor, Antonio Coppola, will be in Helsinki next week. He will accompany on the piano the screening of two major films in the history of Finnish cinema. Victor Sjostrom’s ‘The Wind’ (1928) will be the first film screened on Monday 15 May at Cinema Orion. It will be followed by […]
Read moreSpain – “Little Utopias”: Italy’s new style in architecture on show in Spain
Italian architecture in the third millennium, spanning from its history to research and innovation: “Little Utopias”, an exhibition on Italy’s “new” style in architecture was presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Maxxi National Museum of 21st Century Art of Rome, the Universidad de Navarra […]
Read moreMinister Alfano in Brussels for the Foreign Affairs Council meeting
After the first working session, opened by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, the ministers will discuss the state of progress in the implementation of the “EU Global Strategy” in the area of security and defence. Discussions will also focus on issues connected to the Horn of […]
Read moreAsunción Fashion Week
The Celebrations of Italian Design, organised by the Italian Embassy in Paraguay for the Asuncion Fashion Week, was a great public and media success. The event, which targeted professionals in the fashion sector, was held in the Embassy’s gardens which, for the occasion, formed the backdrop to the catwalk of the major brands of Italian […]
Read moreHong Kong – Sixth edition of the Salento International Film Festival
The 6th edition of the Salento International Film Festival kicked off in Hong Kong. The Festival, which will be held at the Grand Cinema in Kowloon from 17 to 21 May, was organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in association with several partners, including the Italian Consulate General. The Festival celebrates independent cinema around the […]
Read moreIntegrated promotion of Italian culture, diplomacy and cinema: presentation of the docufilm “Acqua e zucchero – Carlo di Palma, i colori della vita”
“Acqua e zucchero – Carlo Di Palma, i colori della vita” (“Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life”), a docufilm by Fariborz Kamkari realised in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Regional Authority of Lazio, the Istituto Luce Cinecittà, and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, was presented at the Bari […]
Read moreItaly’s Economic Diplomacy 10 May: latest news from the world
Bulgaria: Italian Festival The 14th edition of the Italian Festival, a programme of events dedicated to Italy and its extraordinary cultural and business offers, is ongoing in Bulgaria from 10 May to 29 June. This year’s edition is focused on the combination of culture and economy and envisages initiatives in the field of music, art, […]
Read moreSlovakia – Zilina to host the first exhibition dedicated to Emilio Isgrò
On 18 May, the Art Gallery of the City of Zilina will open the first exhibition in Slovakia dedicated to Emilio Isgrò, an internationally renowned painter and conceptual artist but also a poet, writer, playwright and director. Starting from the Sixties, Isgrò produced a line of work that is among the most revolutionary and original […]
Read moreSpain – The Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona hosts astronaut Luca Parmitano
Tomorrow the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona will host Luca Parmitano, the first Italian astronaut to go on a “spacewalk” while performing scientific experiments in the absence of gravity during his 167-day stay on board of the International Space Station (ISS). Parmitano will narrate his extraordinary experience on board of the ISS during the “Volare” […]
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