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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‘Tradizione e Modernismo’ classical music concert
Claudia Mauro on flute and Sebastiano Mesaglio on the piano will perform on a classical music night taking the spectators on a route from ‘Tradition to Modernism’
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Back to nature! exhibition opening of Dereje Shiferaw
Dereje Shiferaw is a contemporary watercolor artist who incorporates new mixed techniques. Through this exhibition he wants to present the relationship between human beings and social, economical and cultural issues. He expresses his feelings and emotions with twisted lines and forms, intense color and texture creating a rich color pattern of organic and geometric forms.
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La Terrazza
A dinner on a Roman terrace is a chance to meet for a group of intellectuals who talk, discuss, quarrel too. From this frame, the stories of a screenwriter short of ideas, a journalist unable to renew, a Rai consultant incline to depression, a film producer, and a communist deputy are developing. A year later, […]
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Movie ‘Enrico IV’
During a masked feast, Baron Belcredi provokes the fall of a rival in love, who goes astray believing he is Henry IV, the emperor of Germany excommunicated in 1076 by Gregory VII. The man locks himself in a castle, deciding – disappointed about the falseness and the hypocrisy of the world – to continue to […]
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Italy at Cannes
Photographer Roger del Rio exposes a series of pictures of Italian actors and directors taken during some Cannes Festival. The pictures, presented in black and white portray Italian celebrities.
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