Screening of the movie ‘Cosy Dens’ (1999, by Jan Hřebejk)
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Prague spring, the Czech embassy and the Slovak embassy present “Movies from the Vault”, Golden age of the Czechoslovak cinematography of the 1960’s. A story of three generations, ageing parents, adolescent children and younglings. Set in the Christmas season leading up to the ill-fated Prague Spring […]
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Screening of the movie ‘All my compatriots’ (1968, by Vojtěch Jasný)
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Prague spring, the Czech embassy and the Slovak embassy “Movies by the Vault”, Golden age of the Czechoslovak cinematography of the 1960’s. ‘All my compatriots’ is the epic tale of a Czech village life from shortly after the end of the Second World War: The movie […]
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Screening of the movie ‘Fair Play’ (2014, by Andrea Sedláčková)
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Prague spring, the Czech embassy and the Slovak embassy present “Movies from the Vault”, movies from the Golden age of the Czechoslovak cinematography of the 1960s. The 1980s in Czechoslovakia. The young talented sprinter Anna is selected for the national team and starts training to qualify […]
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Screening of the movie ‘Ear’ (1970, by Karel Kachyňa)
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Prague spring, the Czech embassy and the Slovak embassy “Movies by the Vault”, Golden age of the Czechoslovak cinematography of the 1960’s. ‘Ear’ is the story of a bitter married couple: Ludvik, official of the ruling Prague’s Communist Party, and Anna, his alcoholic wife.They return home […]
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Screening of the movie ‘Non è un paese per giovani’
Sandro and Luciano are waiters in a restaurant but they grow bigger dreams: Sandro, the son of a Pugliese news agent who suddenly becomes an abusive fruit seller, wants to become a writer, while Luciano, son of a journalist, would like to see his horizons widen, even if he does not know well in which […]
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Screening of the movie ‘The Place’
‘The Place’ by Paolo Genovese, is a movie about a mysterious man who always sits at the table on the back of a restaurant. Who is that man? It’s not important. At his table he receives visitors. Each of them has a desire, a deep desire, a desire difficult to accomplish, if not impossible. The […]
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Debora Petrina – Be Blind
Singer, pianist, composer and dancer/performer, Debora Petrina is unique in the Italian scene, summarizing with visionary class an oblique and sensual artistry with experimentations of pop-rock,electronics, with forefront music and jazz.BeBlind is a provocative exhortation to be blind in the understanding of an increasingly complex reality, both in personal relationships mediated by instruments/screens/ barriers and […]
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Screeining of the documentary ‘Ibi’
On the occasion of the Addis International Film Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute participates with the screening of the documentary ‘Ibi’ by Andrea Segre. Ibi was born in Benin in 1960, has three children and in 1999, after a serious economic problem, she risked her life to allow a better future for the family. She […]
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Addis International Film Festival
Addis International Film Festival returns this year with over 60 documentaries and 20 feature films from around the world. The Italian Cultural Institute will be a screening place for some of these films.For more information about the event and screening follow the AIFF website here.
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Littera & Gorlier Duo
Harmonica player Gianluca Littera who discovered the chromatic harmonica and dedicated his life to it, becoming one of the very few soloists in the world today to propose this instrument both in classical music and in jazz. He has collaborated with composers such as Maestro Ennio Morricone and has taken part in various orchestras as […]
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