CAM’S WAR (La guerra di Cam) by Laura Muscardin – ST.ALi IFF 2021/The Female Lens
CAM’S WAR (2020, 83′, 15+, with English subtitles) screening at the ST.ALi Italian Film Festival 2021. From Official Competition at the Giffoni Film Festival, director Laura Muscardin takes us on perilous adventure, set in the future, in a world where wars and devastating natural disasters have destroyed all human infrastructure and plunged the world into […]
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SIRLEY (MALEDETTA PRIMAVERA) by Elisa Amoruso – ST.ALi IFF 2021/The Female Lens
SIRLEY (MALEDETTA PRIMAVERA) (2020, 94′, 15+, in Italian with English subtitles) screening at the ST.ALi IFF 2021. Upcoming Roman director Elisa Amoruso’s semi-autobiographical fiction debut chronicles a young girl’s plight as she strives to make sense of her place in the world under the not-so-watchful eyes of her dysfunctional parents. It’s 1990 and 13-year-old Nina’s […]
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Amore e ragione nella ‘Vita nuova’
Lecture: Amore e ragione nella ‘Vita nuova’ As part of the Week of the Italian Language in the World The purpose of this presentation is to emphasise how, in his autobiographical work Vita nuova, Dante bases his path to inner regeneration on the quest for a love that is underpinned by the “constancy of reason”. […]
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Piano recital by Giuseppe Andaloro
Dante-themed concert with pieces by Marenzio, Luzzaschi, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Bülow-Liszt, Wolf-Ferrari and Liszt. At the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and in collaboration with the Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica (Italian National Music Committee – CIDIM), the pianist Giuseppe Andaloro performs a Dante-themed repertoire at the Sala Verdi of the Milan […]
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We are the forest – Our special relationship with trees
Lecture: We are the forest – Our special relationship with trees by Giorgio Vacchiano as part of the The Sustainable Development Festival Synopsis: How to restore a happy and healthy relationship with forests? We will explore trees and the forests of the world, learn what they do for us, and walk among the dangers that […]
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Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by Luchino Visconti
LUCHINO VISCONTI’S ENDURING ROMANTIC ADVENTURE. Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by Luchino Visconti (1963, 185’) In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding […]
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Play-Back#9 Due passi sono
PLAY-BACK 2021 Teatro contemporaneo italiano / Contemporary Italian Theatre Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Melbourne / Italian Cultural Institute Melbourne Cura di / Curated by Elvira Frosini e Daniele Timpano DUE PASSI SONO by Carullo-Minasi written, directed and performed by Giuseppe Carullo and Cristiana Minasi set and costumes Cinzia Muscolino lights Roberto Bonaventura assistant […]
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FARE CINEMA – Book to screen.
BOOK TO SCREEN. From book to tv series: The cases of Montalbano, Gomorrah and My brilliant friend. Produced in collaboration with the Turin International Book Fair, the three documentaries lasting about 20 minutes illustrate the process of adapting succesfull Italian novels into world-famous tv series: the saga of Commissario Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri, Gomorrah by Roberto […]
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Play-Back#8 T.I.N.A.
PLAY-BACK 2021 Teatro contemporaneo italiano / Contemporary Italian Theatre Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Melbourne / Italian Cultural Institute Melbourne Cura di / Curated by Elvira Frosini e Daniele Timpano T.I.N.A. (THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE) – 2017 concept and performance GISELDA RANIERIartistic collaboration SANDRO MABELLINIproduction ALDESwith the support of MIBAC – MINISTERO per […]
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CANCELLED – “Raccontami una storia… uno scrittore italiano a Melbourne”
DUE TO LOCKDOWN RESTRICTIONS. “Raccontami una storia… uno scrittore italiano a Melbourne”. Meet Luigi Gussago, author of “La casa, il nido, la prigione”, his first literary work. During the evening there will be a reading of two short stories selected from the collection: “La guerra di Josepp” dedicated to Luigi’s nonna and “Opinioni di un […]
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