Francesca De Fazi meets Kaÿn Lab
Francesca De Fazi is an Italian blues singer and guitarist, whose passion and spirit led the press to define her as one of the best in the future of Italian blues. Grown artistically in England and the United States, she began her musical profession entering the Italian market and then growing in the European one […]
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Crater of Eternal Lightness
Artist Riccardo Arena opens the art exhibition ‘Crater of Eternal Lightness’ where the main interest of his work is focused on the creation of collection processes and study of heterogeneous documents, which, through a stratification and assembly operation, reveal accidental and unexpected potentials by actively participating in the creation of works conceived as poetic formalizations […]
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THE NEW ITALIAN CINEMA – Cinderella the cat
Set almost entirely aboard a retro-futuristic ship in the harbor of Naples, the story re-imagines Cinderella as a 17-year-old, vaguely emo-punk chick who’s about to be married off to a megalomaniac drug dealer who wants to turn Naples into the crime capital of the world. Of course, there’s an evil stepmother…
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THE NEW ITALIAN CINEMA – Tutto quello che vuoi
Alessandro, a 22-year-old boy, accepts a job as Giorgio’s companion, a lively and entertaining 85-year-old poet. The two belong to profoundly different worlds, but their heterogeneity and initial distance will allow Giorgio to fall asleep serene and to Alexander to start finding his own balance that will bring him closer to his father and push […]
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THE NEW ITALIAN CINEMA – The art of happiness
Sergio is a Neapolitan taxi driver who, in an incessant rain, brings his clients to the city, increasingly degraded. At the same time he tries to metabolize the death of his brother Alfredo, who left for Tibet ten years before and never returned. On the seats of his taxi there are a singer, a radio […]
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THE NEW ITALIAN CINEMA – Love and Bullets
Don Vincenzo Strozzalone is a Camorra boss, nicknamed the king of fish. After surviving an attack, he realizes that he is tired of leading this life. Under the advice of Donna Maria, his cinema passionate wife, pretends to be dead as James Bond does in movies. But his secret, shared with the faithful Ciro and […]
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Screening of movie ‘Che ora è’
A wealthy 60 year old Roman lawyer is spending a day in Civitavecchia with his son Michele who is ending his military service. Michele, closed tempered and not ambitious, is bothered by his father’s nosiness, while his father, on his side, is aware of being almost a stranger to his son, but is wrong with […]
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Second edition of the ‘Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World’
On the occasion of the second edition of the ‘Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World’, the Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with ENAIP, Jazzamba Music School and Juventus Club in Addis Ababa is organizing a dinner with a special menu prepared by visiting Chefs from Veneto Region, accompanied by Italian wines and music.
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Screening of the documentary ‘Fuocoammare’
On the occasion of the European Film Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute presents the documentary ‘Fuocoammare’ directed by Gianfranco Rosi, which focuses on the Island of Lampedusa and the migrants who reach there, it also won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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European Film Festival
From November 3rd to November 19th, various Institutes in Addis Ababa (Italian Cultural institute, Alliance Ethio- Française, the British Council and Goethe-Institut) will be hosting the European Film Festival. The opening will be at the National Theatre of Addis Abeba with the screening of the Dutch movie entitled ‘Toni Erdmann’ directed by Maren Ade.
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