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Diplomatic Network
6 February 2024
Sweden, Cortellesi’s movie “C’è ancora domani” (‘There’s Still Tomorrow) wins at the Gothenburg Film Festival

Paola Cortellesi’s highly acclaimed movie won the Dragon Award  Best International Film at the 47th Göteborg Film Festival, the Scandinavian region’s leading film festival, which attracts more than 160,000 visitors each year to attend more than 1,000 screenings of 450 films. The award is the result of a vote by the public present at the […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
6 February 2024
First Albanian edition of Primo Levi’s book The Drowned and the Saved

The Albanian edition of Primo Levi’s book The Drowned and the Saved, translated by Aida Baro and published by Dukagjini, with the contribution of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Kosovan Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, will soon be available for the first time in bookshops in Kosovo and […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
5 February 2024
Prague, Workshop on Cultural Heritage Observation from Space

What are the results of observing the world’s cultural heritage from space? What are the challenges and state-of-the-art methods for monitoring and preserving cultural heritage? This will be discussed in the Baroque Chapel of the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague at the workshop “Space meets Culture: Discovering and Preserving Cultural Heritage from Space”, organised by […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
5 February 2024
Brussels, exhibitions and concerts to remember Andrea Pazienza

The Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels presents “Ci vuole Pazienza”, a series of events centred on the Italian comics legend, Andrea Pazienza. One of the greatest representatives of the Italian artistic world of the 1970s and 1980s, who died prematurely at the age of 32, Andrea Pazienza recounted the contradictions of his generation through his […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
31 January 2024
First Italian language course inaugurated in a university in Jeddah

The University of Business and Technology (UBT) in Jeddah, one of Saudi Arabia’s leading universities, has inaugurated an Italian language course. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Consul General of Italy in Jeddah and promoter of the initiative, Leonardo Costa, the University’s Chairman and owner, Professor Abdullah S. Dahlan, and the highest academic institutions. […]

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Diplomatic Network
25 January 2024
Visit by Ambassador Giuseppina Zarra to Plovdiv, Bulgaria

The Italian Ambassador to Sofia Giuseppina Zarra recently visited Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second largest city after the capital, to meet with the local authorities. During her visit, the Ambassador was accompanied by the Italian Honorary Consul in Plovdiv, Giuseppe De Francesco, and the President of Confindustria Bulgaria, Roberto Santorelli. Ambassador Zarra met with Regional Administrator Iliya […]

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Press Releases
25 January 2024
Tripodi: UNESCO is a key pillar of Italian cultural diplomacy

Italy’s Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Maria Tripodi today opened the Assembly of the National Commission for UNESCO at the Farnesina. Reaffirming Italy’s unwavering adherence to the precious values embraced by UNESCO, Tripodi expressed her full appreciation for the work performed by the Italian National Commission under the leadership of President Franco Bernabè. […]

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Events
23 January 2024
International Symposium on Cultural Heritage, official launch of the Heritage International Institute

The International Symposium on Cultural Heritage (Forlí, 18-19 January 2024), promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, ended with an unprecedented success. The Symposium also saw the presentation ceremony of the Heritage International Institute, an academic, cultural and artistic centre of international excellence. More than 200 delegates from all over the world […]

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Diplomatic Network
22 January 2024
Abu Dhabi, solo exhibition of Italian-Lebanese artist Gilbert Halaby

In collaboration with ArtBooth UAE, the Italian Cultural Institute of Abu Dhabi inaugurated “Will You Wait For Me Under That Pine Tree?”, the solo exhibition of Italian-Lebanese artist Gilbert Halaby, which will remain open until 29 February. The exhibition, featuring 13 oil paintings on linen, pays homage to Gilbert Halaby’s roots and traces the serene […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
22 January 2024
Oslo, Conference on “The Shoah in Italy”

The Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo has organised a Conference on 25 January to mark the Holocaust Remembrance Day. The topic will be the discrimination and persecution of Jewish Italian citizens during Fascism and will be addressed by Professor Elisabetta Cassina Wolff from the University of Oslo. The discussion will focus, in particular, on the understanding […]

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Cultural Diplomacy
19 January 2024
Italian Ambassador Franchetti Pardo donates the Ukrainian edition of the book “Pimpa travels through Italy” to the children of the UNICEF hub in Poland

As part of the efforts to promote and enhance in Poland the volumes recently produced by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ambassador of Italy in Warsaw, Luca Franchetti Pardo, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute of Krakow, donated about fifty copies of the Ukrainian edition of the book Pimpa […]

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