Michelangelo Antonioni: Modernist Master
Michelangelo Antonioni is one of Italy’s most renowned directors, and his work helped shape Italy’s cinema industry in ways that are still influential today. In his movies, Antonioni explores themes of loneliness, urban life and nostalgia that reveal the 60s bourgeois society to viewers past and present. To honour the work of this cinema master, […]
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LA GRAZIA – in cinemas from March 19
The Italian Cultural institute in Melbourne is pleased to promote the new masterpiece LA GRAZIA from Italy’s most celebrated contemporary filmmaker, Paolo Sorrentino. presented by @madmanfilms and @italianfilmfest Starring Toni Servillo, winner of the Best Actor award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, alongside Anna Ferzetti and Massimo Venturiello, LA GRAZIA is in cinemas from […]
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ROME: EMPIRE, POWER, PEOPLE AL MELBOURNE MUSEUM
The Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Rome: Empire, Power, People at Melbourne Museum on 1 April 2026, with the exhibition remaining on view until 25 October 2026. For the first time ever, a collection of 180 original artifacts dated from the 1st Century CE to the […]
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Cinema Reborn – Notti Bianche (White Nights)
Cinema Reborn returns to Lido Cinemas in Hawthorn from Friday May 8th, 2026 to Sunday May 17th, 2026! Developed by a community of cinema enthusiasts, programmers, filmmakers, screen historians and critics, the festival aims to bring back to the big screen restored classics, in order to celebrate the art of cinema through history; it also […]
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