“Questa sera è già domani”: a conversation with Lia Levi
Lia Levi, born in Pisa in 1931 to a Jewish family of Piedmontese origins, is a journalist, founder of the magazine Shalom and author of several works of fiction largely dedicated to Jewish history and themes. Her novels provide insight into the trials and tragedies facing Italian Jews during the 20th century, as well as […]
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How much of Pompeii is Pompeii? Restoration, musealization, and reception of the Vesuvian City – with Gabriella Cianciolo Cosentino
Buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD and later brought back to light, Pompeii is not only the world’s most complete surviving ancient city, but is also constituted of the overlapping of a large number of restorations, reconstructions, and museological reconfigurations carried out from 1748 to the present. Using a variety of examples, […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Acqua e Zucchero. Carlo Di Palma: i colori della vita
Cinema’s magic is the running theme of this warm documentary about the life and works of visionary cinematographer Carlo Di Palma, whose working maxim was “la luce, la luce, la luce” (light, light, light). Di Palma collaborated with directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Woody Allen: his innovations in colour with Antonioni’s Red Desert and […]
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World Poetry Day: “Poetare e cantare sono sinonimi” – with Marco Ramelli and Antonio Cascelli
Poetry reaffirms our common humanity by revealing to us that individuals, everywhere in the world, share the same questions and feelings. Poetry is the mainstay of oral tradition and can communicate the innermost values of diverse cultures. For this reason, a decision to proclaim 21 March as World Poetry Day was adopted during UNESCO’s 30th […]
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Italian Design Day 2019 // Italian Design: five perspectives
The Italian Design Day, an integrated promotion project launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to highlight the excellence and peculiarities of Italian design around the world, reaches its third edition. The Italian Institute, in collaboration with Milano Design Film Festival, presents L’Eredità dei Maestri. This series of short films and documentaries, selected from the […]
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“Ciao amore ciao”: recital on Luigi Tenco – with Nino Racco
Ciao amore ciao was the last song and the “suicide note” of the legendary singer- songwriter Luigi Tenco, who took his own life in 1967, shortly after performing at the Sanremo Festival. Tenco subsequently became an icon of love and despair and his artistic legacy lives on to these days. The actor Nino Racco incorporates […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Visioni Sarde
Sponsored by Regione Sardegna, Visioni Sarde is a collection of short films, documentaries and avant-garde films by young Sardinian filmmakers. The five shorts selected for our screening show a hidden side of Sardinian culture, where traditions merge with modernity, urban landscapes blend with rural scenery, and reality and fantasy collide. Deu ti amu! (Jacopo Cullin, […]
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Jhumpa Lahiri – Launch of “The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories”
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London to parent from West Bengala, and then raised in the United States. After winning a Pulitzer Prize (for her first book, the collection of short stories The Interpreter of Maladies, published in 1999), and publishing three other books (The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth and The Lowland), she made a decision […]
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Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival: Shooting the Mafia
Shooting the Mafia by Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto’s powerful documentary strips back the glamorous image of the Sicilian Mafia, showing the harsh reality of life, death and business at the hands of those who wield it. It does so through the eyes and lens of photographer Letizia Battaglia, who captured their brutality on her own […]
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“Roma”: a conversation with Vittorio Giacopini and Enrico Terrinoni
Rome, its streets and its unmistakable language are at the core of countless literary productions which depict the main feature and contradiction of the Eternal City: the endless war between beauty and decay. In his novel Roma, Vittorio Giacopini paints a grim picture of modern-day Rome and even predicts its literal destruction… Vittorio Giacopini is […]
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