SINCE Song Competition
Ten finalists for the SINCE Song Competition will showcase their songs about the risks of irregular immigration in Ethiopia. Winners will be chosen by a grand jury composed by musician Mulatu Astatke, singer Nardos Tarfaw and musician Abiy Woldemariam.
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Tesfaye Gebre: A Photo Exhibition
Tesfaye Gebre, an Ethiopian-naturalized-Italian singer, represents a cultural bridge between the two countries. Ever since his debut on stage at La Mascott, an Italian restaurant in Addis Ababa, Tesfaye showed great interest for Western styles of music. With his arrival in Rome in 1962, Tesfaye began a succesful career which lead him to share the […]
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Theatre première – “Filumena Marturano”
“Filumena Marturano” is a play about a woman, an ex-prostitute, who tricks her old pimp into marrying her. The plot thickens after Filumena reveals to her husband the reasons behind her deceit. “Filumena Marturano” has been translated and performed in various countries, and in 1964, Italian director Vittorio de Sica based the film “Marriage Italian […]
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Screening of the film “Una Vita Spericolata” di Marco Ponti
After an (unintentional) bank robbery, Lorenzo, BB and Soledad escape across Italy in vortex of car chases, bloodsheds and money.Starring Lorenzo Richelmy, Matilda de Angelis, Eugenio Franceschini.Original Italian version with English subtitles.2018 – 102 min
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Screening of the film “Troppa Grazia” by Gianni Zanasi
A comedy about the encounter between a woman and a celestial being. Lucia, a young land surveyor, has to face a choice: facilitating, with her work, the real estate speculations of a local entrepeneur, or listening to the divine apparitions that order her to build a church on the same land.The film obtained three nominations […]
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Screening of the movie “Ride” by Valerio Mastandrea
After the death of Mario Secondari, a victim of an accident at work, his family members have to deal with the absence and the elaboration of mourning. His wife Carolina, though tortured, cannot cry; little Bruno, his son, staged his funeral, simulating a journalistic interview; Mario’s father and brother, on the other hand, will deal […]
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Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio
The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio arrives in Addis Ababa! On December 10th, at 6.30 pm, this renowned collection of artists from around the world will perform for the first time ever in Ethiopia at the National Theater together with the Ethiopian dancer Melaku Belay and his famous Ethiocolor band! The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio was founded in […]
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Movie – “Mid-August lunch”
In the frame of the Week of Italian Cuisine we propose an exhilarant comedy, “Mid-August Luch” by Gianni de Gregorio, on Tuesday 19th Novemeber 2019 6.30pm at Italian Cultural institute. English subtitles PLOTGianni, a sixty-year-old man covered in debts, spends his mid-August in a condominium in the scorching Rome with his mother, Donna Valeria, a capricious, […]
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European Film Festival – “Perfetti Sconosciuti” (“Perfect Strangers”)
On 14-17 and 21-24 November the European Union Film Festival will take place at Vamdas cinema, and Italy will participate with the selected movie “Perfetti Sconosciuti” (“Perfect Strangers”) on Saturday 16th November at 7pm! Italian language with English subtitlesFree entrance PLOTOn a warm summer evening, the loving couple of Rocco, a plastic surgeon, and Eva, […]
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Art exhibition – “Poetic Paintings” by Million Birhane
“Poetic Paintings” is the title that the artist Million Birhane gave to her art exhibition hold at Italian Cultural Institute, starting from 12th November until 6th Dicember. The opening will be on 12th November alle 6.00pm. Free entrance and refreshments. ABOUT THE ARTISTMillion Birhane was born on September 11th, 1989, in Addis Ababa. In 2002 […]
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