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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Settimana del Cinema Italiano – The Italian Cinema Audiences Project
The Italian Cinema Audiences project, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, ran for three years and interviewed Italians from all parts of Italy about their memories of cinema-going between 1945-60. This event showcases respondents’ memories of particular films, stars, and genres, but also the ways the cinema-going experience formed an important part […]
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Scienza o fantascienza? “Where is everyone?” with Amedeo Balbi
Amedeo Balbi is an astrophysicist and Professor at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.” The author of more than 90 scientific publications, his research interests range from the origin of the universe to the problem of dark matter and energy, to the search of life in the cosmos. He is a columnist for the Italian […]
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EVENT CANCELLED – Italian Noir Series – A conversation with Carlo Lucarelli
**The event has been postponed to a later date. Futher information will be posted on this website and on our Facebook page.** Following the event with Massimo Carlotto, our Italian Noir series continues with Carlo Lucarelli. Carlo Lucarelli is an Italian crime-writer, TV presenter and journalist. He was the presenter of a popular Italian crime […]
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Calvino, Sciascia and Giufà – Lecture by Prof. Joseph Francese
The careers of Italo Calvino and Leonardo Sciascia intertwined almost from their debuts as writers. Calvino, in his capacity of editor at Einaudi, was one of the first readers of Sciascia’s works, from Gli zii di Sicilia through the late 1970s. An important point of intersection was their divergent readings of the trickster Giufà, a […]
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Monday at the Cinema: Terra di Transito
Monday at the Cinema is a series of screenings dedicated to Italian contemporary cinema promoted in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Terra di Transito – Director: Paolo Martino. After a dangerous journey from the Middle East, Rahell arrives in Italy. From there he plans to reach Sweden, the country where […]
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