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Diplomatic Network

15 April 2022

Buenos Aires — Italian films at BAFICI Festival

The Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires is taking part in the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), one of the most important in Latin America. The festival, which runs from 20 April to 1 May 2022, includes a broad selection of Italian films. These include the documentary “Italo Disco. Il suono scintillante degli […]

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Diplomatic Network

14 April 2022

Ambassador to Brazil, Azzarello visits Rio Grande do Sul

Italian Ambassador to Brazil, Francesco Azzarello has ended his official trip to the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The diplomat visited the capital, Porto Alegre and the industrial and wine-growing regions of Caxias do Sul, Bento Goncalves and Pinto Bandeira. On 5 April, the diplomatic mission kicked off with a meeting with staff from […]

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Diplomatic Network

14 April 2022

Artist Piero Mottola on show at Havana

The Italian Embassy in Havana announces the participation of artist Piero Mottola in the 14th edition of the Havana Biennial contemporary art show hosted at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. The Italian artist is due to exhibit his “Voices of Life”, a sound installation comprising ten acoustic speakers and an emotional map that the author […]

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Diplomatic Network

6 April 2022

Buenos Aires, conference on the re-use of organised crime assets

The conference “The social re-use of assets seized from organised crime: an opportunity for society and State” took place on 5 April at the Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires, following the initiative of four Italian and Argentinian organisations: Libera. Associazioni, nomi e numeri contro le mafie; Circolo Giuridico di Argentina; Asociación Civil por […]

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Diplomatic Network

6 April 2022

Santiago, “Italia Energia Creativa” programme to kick off

The Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Santiago have recently started the programme “Italia Energia Creativa” (“Italy, Creative Energy”), which tables a number of thoughts and multidisciplinary actions related to science, technology, energy and sustainability, art and culture through exhibitions, conferences and contests. The key moment of the project, set up with the […]

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Diplomatic Network

6 April 2022

Event “Montevideo, a capital of Italian culture” has ended

A bicycle ride along the most important buildings and monuments associated with Italian history or architecture concluded the exhibition, “Montevideo. A capital of Italian culture”, held in Uruguay’s capital, on 5 April. The initiative, organised by the Italian Embassy and by the Italian Cultural Institute in Montevideo, further consolidated the ties with Italy of a […]

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Diplomatic Network

5 April 2022

Buenos Aires, kicks off the “Viva Fellini” film festival

The Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires and the Fundación Cinemateca Argentina organize a cycle of film screenings titled “Viva Fellini”, that will open on 10 April and close on 15 May. The cycle includes three recently restored feature films of the Italian filmmaking master and two documentaries that give an in-depth description of the […]

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Diplomatic Network

4 April 2022

Full calendar of events for the “Green Embassy Week” in Brasilia

The “Green Embassy Week” has just ended. The event was organized by the Diplomatic Representation in Brasilia, the first Italian Diplomatic Mission to be certified as “Green” and the first Embassy in the world to obtain the “Lixo Zero” (Zero Waste) certification for the minimum amount of solid waste that goes to landfills. The initiative […]

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Diplomatic Network

31 March 2022

Brazil, Ambassador Azzarello went on an official visit to Belem

Last 22nd of March, the Italian Ambassador in Brasilia, Francesco Azzarello, went on an official visit to Belem, the capital of the State of Pará. During the visit, he met with the Governor, Helder Barbalho, the Mayor, Edmilson Rodrigues, the Rector of the Federal University, Emmanuel Zagury Tourinho and the director of the “Liceo Italiano”, Guido […]

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Diplomatic Network

23 March 2022

Cartagena — Pasolini retrospective at Film Festival

To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian Cultural Institute in Bogotá has organised a retrospective of four of Pasolini’s films. The event was presented at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias, Colombia’s most important film festival. The four films presented – Accattone, Il Decameron, Comizi d’amore and Porcile – […]

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In detail

18 March 2022

The official visit to Brazil by Undersecretary of State, Manlio Di Stefano has ended after meetings with the President of the Central Bank of Brazil, Neto, with Brazil’s Deputy Minister of Economy, Fendt, with the Governor of the State of São Paulo, João Doria Jr. and Italian companies

The official visit to Brazil by Undersecretary of State, Manlio Di Stefano, ended yesterday. After meeting with Brazil’s Foreign Minister França on the 15th of March, on the 16th of March, Undersecretary Di Stefano had several fruitful working meetings with the President of the Central Bank of Brazil, Roberto Campos Neto, and with Brazil’s Deputy Minister of […]

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Diplomatic Network

18 March 2022

Santo Domingo: conference on scientific and space diplomacy

The Embassy of Italy in Santo Domingo, in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry of the Dominican Republic and the Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (INTEC), has organised a conference on “The experience of the Italian Republic in developing scientific and space diplomacy”. The event was organised in the context of Italian Research Day. The aim […]

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