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18 April 2017
Buenos Aires – Nanni Moretti attends the BAFICI Independent Film Festival

“I believe in people. But I do not believe in the majority of people…” This is a famous quote by Nanni Moretti from his movie  ‘Caro diario’ (‘Dear Diary’), which will be screened at the BAFICI independent film festival, on Thursday, 20 April ( at  5:10 p.m at Theatre 4, Village Recoleta). The Festival will run from 19 to 30 […]

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7 April 2017
The Pleasure of Reading in Italian: Great Literature at the Embassy in Brasilia

Thursdays are dedicated to the “pleasure of reading in Italian” at the Italian Embassy in Brasilia. Our embassy is holding a series of readings of a number of Italy’s most important authors of contemporary literature. The series began on 13 March with Elena Ferrante’s “L’Amica geniale”. It continues on 27 April with Niccolò Ammaniti’s “Io […]

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6 April 2017
​Argentina – Nanni Moretti is a guest of honour at Buenos Aires Film Festival

Nanni Moretti will travel to Argentina to be guest of honour at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film – BAFICI,  running from 19 to 30 April in the Argentinian capital. The Festival will also screen the work of Walter Veltroni. The Italian Embassy and Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires have published the programme […]

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Press Releases
3 April 2017
Minister Alfano: ” Deep sorrow for the Mocoa victims and personal closeness to the families stricken by this tragedy. To Colombia, a Country which is a friend of Italy, I wish to convey the deep-felt condolences of our Country”

Minister Alfano: “I wish to express our deep sorrow for the Mocoa victims and my personal closeness to the families stricken by this tragedy. To Colombia, a Country which is a friend of Italy, I wish to convey the deep-felt condolences of our Country.”The Farnesina’s Crisis Unit, in close cooperation with the Italian Embassy in […]

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3 April 2017
Mexico City, the Alinari Photo Archive shows 19th century Florence

The Alinari Photographic Archive contains images of Florence in the 19th century, depicting the city’s transformation from Florence as the capital of Italy to Florence the capital of international tourism. This is the theme of the lecture that Stefano Bertocci will hold at 7 p.m., today, 3 April, at the Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico […]

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29 March 2017
Colombia – The Italian Embassy in Bogotà presents the “Invest Your Talent in Italy” programme

Are you a Colombian student in Engineering-Advanced Technologies, Design-Architecture and Economics-Business Management? Would you like to specialise in Italy and also enjoy the opportunity of acquiring practical experience in an Italian enterprise? The “Invest Your Talent in Italy” Programme – informs a note by the Italian Embassy in Bogotà – offers the possibility of attending […]

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28 March 2017
Peru – Giuseppe Tornatore‎’s “La sconosciuta” screened in Lima

The Italian Cultural Institute in Lima will host the screening of Giuseppe Tornatore’s film “La sconosciuta” [The Unknown Woman], with Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini. The film was awarded a David di Donatello prize in 2007 for the best film director. Giuseppe Tornatore created a film based on real incidents in the racket of […]

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27 March 2017
Event at the Teatro Nacional di San José, ​Costa Rica

Our Embassy, together with the Delegation of the European Union, organized an event at the Teatro Nacional San José, the most prestigious cultural institution of the Country, to celebrate 60th anniversary of the signing of the Rome Treaties. The event was attended by the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solis, accompanied […]

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23 March 2017
​Montevideo: conference to celebrate 60 years of the Treaties of Rome

On Tuesday, 21st March, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Uruguay, the well-known historian and political expert Gerardo Caetano, president of the Association of Historians of Uruguay, gave a lecture entitled “60 years since the Treaties of Rome. History and assessment of the origins of the European Union”. The meeting was opened by the […]

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20 March 2017
Brazil – Olivetti designed by Sottsass on show in Sao Paulo

The Italian Cultural Institute in Sao Paulo will open an exhibition devoted to the Olivetti of Ettore Sottsass as part of the Italian Design Day at the Museu da Casa Brasileira next 28 March. The important Italian company, which was leader in the market of typewriters, calculators and electronic devices in the 20th century, in […]

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