Settimana del Cinema Italiano – L’intervallo
Salvatore, a seventeen-year-old orphan, lives in a grey suburb in Naples. Because of an offense to a Camorra chief’s neighbourhood, the fifteen-year-old Veronica becomes hostage inside an abandoned building on the far outskirts of Naples, pending punishment. Salvatore has to watch over her. During the waiting, Veronica and Salvatore, initially diffident and hostile towards each […]
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Settimana del Cinema Italiano – Noi credevamo
The film, articulated in four chapters (Le scelte, Domenico, Angelo and L’alba della Nazione), tells the story of three boys of the Cilento valley: Salvatore, a patriotic spirit, Domenico, who believes in friendship, and Angelo, who opts for the armed struggle. In 1828 they choose to participate in Giuseppe Mazzini’s Republican political movement “Giovine Italia“. […]
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Don’t tell me you’re aftraid – A conversation with Giuseppe Catozzella
Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid, Catozzella’s third novel, won the Premio Strega Giovani 2014, and was published in over a dozen countries. Based on a remarkable true story, the book is a moving, inspiring novel whose protagonist, Samia Omar, grows up in war-torn Somalia, dreaming of being a world-class sprinter. She sets her sights on […]
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Settimana del Cinema Italiano – Like the grave of a stone, like the cradle of a star: cinematic connections between Italy and Ireland
This event includes a screening and discussion of the film, “Like the grave of a stone, like the cradle of a star” (Nell’insonnia di avere in sorte la luce) which is a journey between Italy and Ireland, an interdisciplinary atlas of different languages and places that display the possibilities of contemporary cinema as a place […]
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Words on the Street – A European literature trail
Crossing political and literary boundaries – Words on the Street will take you on a journey across the cultural landscape in an evening of celebrity readings of translated works by contemporary European authors – in stunning and unusual locations around Dublin. The event will include readings of Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid by Giuseppe Catozzella, […]
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Settimana del Cinema Italiano – Tempo instabile con probabili schiarite
On the border between Emilia Romagna and Marche, a business that produces sofas faces bankruptcy. Its founders, Ermanno and Giacomo, are friends. Ermanno has a wife, Elena, and a son, Tito, who lives immersed in the world of Japanese comics. Giacomo lives with his son Gabriele, an 18-year-old baseball fan. One night, digging a hole […]
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Settimana del Cinema Italiano – Alza la testa
Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian woman, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career as an amateur in the ring. The balance of this […]
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Settimana del Cinema Italiano – Il primo incarico
Puglia, South of Italy, 1950s. Nena has to travel far from home to get her first job as a teacher. But what she finds is completely different from what she had imagined: a school isolated on a high mountain plain, wild children, people she has nothing in common with, and a hostile environment. One cold […]
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Settimana del Cinema Italiano
The first Settimana del cinema italiano launches in Dublin this year. This celebrates the richness of Italian cinema today: its beauty, its humour, its depth, its acute observations of relationships and of Italian life past and present. During the week (21-28 May), there will be free screenings and a series of events and talks. Films […]
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Una faccenda di cuore – A homage to Daniel O’Connell
Patrizia Monaco is a multi-award-winning playwright and critic from Genoa in Italy, whose works have been performed and broadcast in many countries. From 1978 to 1981 she taught Italian at UCD and she is a regular visitor to Ireland. Una faccenda di cuore, an homage to Daniel O’Connell, is a monologue about the enigma of […]
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