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12 May 2017
Hong 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 […]

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11 May 2017
Integrated 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 […]

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10 May 2017
Slovakia – 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 […]

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8 May 2017
Malta – Art Camp 2017

Thanks to a collaboration between the Italian Embassy in Malta, the Italian Cultural Institute in Valletta and the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, Agnese Purgatorio, an Apulian artist whose work focuses on dialogue, borders and illegality, will be participating in the international Art Camp, organised in Gozo from 7 to 20 May 2017 by the […]

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Press Releases
8 May 2017
Alfano: “The upcoming reopening to the public of the IsIAO Library is an important fruit of the cooperation between the Foreign Ministry and the MiBACT”

“I am very happy that within the context of the 9th edition of “Farnesina Porte Aperte” (“Farnesina Open Doors”), more than 6 years after the closing of the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO), the Institute’s prestigious library will reopen to the public on the premises of the National Central Library of Rome,” said […]

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Press Releases
3 May 2017
Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Vincenzo Amendola, is in Tehran to attend the International Book Festival, where Italy is the guest of honour

The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Vincenzo Amendola, is on mission in Iran. Today, he is in Tehran to attend the International Book Festival, where Italy is the guest of honour and the first Western Country to be conferred this role. After participating in the Festival’s opening ceremony and having visited the Italian Pavilion, […]

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2 May 2017
Sweden – “Cinema Made in Italy – Festival of Italian Cinema”

The  “Cinema Made in Italy – Festival of Italian Cinema” was launched on April 27, in Stockholm,  following a 20-year tradition of cinema reviews organised in the capital city by the Italian Cultural Institute which, thanks to a collaboration with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, will relaunch Italian cinema in Sweden. The Italian Ambassador to Sweden, Mario Cospito, […]

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2 May 2017
Italy Guest Country of Honour at the Tehran International Book Fair

Eternal, universal, distributed with balance over the centuries, the variety of arts perfected by man and the wonder of landscapes designed by nature: a timeless beauty. This will be the common thread in Italy’s participation as Guest Country of Honour at the Tehran International Book Fair (نمایشگاه بین‌المللی کتاب تهران‎‎), from 3 to 13 May […]

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27 April 2017
Farnesina Open Doors – 9th Transparency Day (5-11 May, 2017)

“It is with great pleasure that I welcome the “Farnesina Open Doors” event, now at its 9th edition.The opening of the Farnesina Palace to the general public is yet another opportunity to enhance the transparency of the activities carried out by Italian diplomacy, drawing citizens and institutions closer to our foreign policy. This year’s edition […]

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