“Scialla”, Francesco Bruni’s film of last year, which won him the Venice Film Festival Young David award for best director, will represent Italy in Albania at the 5th edition of the Durazzo International Film Festival opening on Sunday. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the page.
Read moreThe City of Washington will pay tribute to the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni with a broad retrospective of his best known works beginning on 29 September – what would have been his 100th birthday – to be held at the National Gallery of Art, the American Film Institute and the Italian Cultural Institute To read […]
Read moreWho among young Italian film directors has not dreamt of flying to the Big Apple to show their works to the community of American film critics and scholars? That very possibility is being provided, for the second consecutive year, by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, through the “Young Italian Directors” Prize, subdivided into […]
Read moreA group of 17 Kenyan students leave tomorrow for Rome on the first leg of a trip that will bring them to Italy’s principal universities to complete specialized studies in finance, international commerce, law, human development and food security, Italian Ambassador Paola Imperiale will be on hand to see them off tomorrow morning at the […]
Read moreMarco Bellocchio conquers Spain: for the 12th edition of Italian Language Week Barcellona and Valencia will host a complete retrospective of the work of this well known and prolific film director whose work spans 50 years of searching analysis into the fragility of contemporary society. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the […]
Read moreA two-fold tour, in search of an Italy of natural landscapes and historic/archaeological sites, and that of lyric tradition, one of its most distinctive legacies. Within the context of its CineVideoClub, every Thursday of Ramadan from 5 to 30 August the Italian Cultural Institute of Cairo offers two special series of screenings – “Italy and […]
Read moreThe Italian language courses offered by the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires resume there tomorrow, and will continue over the next four months. The students enrolled, the majority of whom are Argentines of Italian descent, can choose from regular 3-hour per week courses, intensive 6-hour and “super-intensive” 9-hour courses, in addition to a bi-weekly […]
Read moreOver 2,000 spectators attended the concert by the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Montevideo. The event was organised by the Centro cultural de Musica of the capital of Uruguay in collaboration with the Italian Embassy and Cultural Institute, and held at the Auditorio nacional del Sodre, and was the culmination of a broad-based calendar […]
Read moreClassics of the Italian cinema alongside the work of noted young screen artists bring the art of Italian filmmaking to Buenos Aires, where the Cinemita series, organized by the Consulate General, opens on 16 August. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the page.
Read moreItalian film is to be showcased at the Santiago Film Festival. The international festival, which runs from 17 to 25 August 2012, will be screening two full-length films by Italian directors: “Corpo Celeste” by Alice Rohrwacher and “Una sconfinata giovinezza” by Pupi Avati. The Italian actress Francesca Neri will also be taking part, as a […]
Read moreA stopover in Portsmouth, United Kingdom, for the Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian Navy’s “school ship” and one of the world’s most spectacular sailing ships. Waiting to greet the ship was the Italian Ambassador to London, Alain Giorgio Maria Economides, who boarded the vessel to welcome the crew and the cadets from Livorno Naval Academy. The […]
Read moreThe decision to make 2013 the Year of Italian Culture in the United States has created a golden opportunity to showcase our cultural and scientific legacies and promote the cultural and production (Brand Italia) components of our Country Development Plan. Research, discovery and innovation The goal of the Year’s theme is to present Italy as […]
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