SHUN LI AND THE POET (IO SONO LI)
at AFI Silver An indentured servant indebted to the snakehead who brought her from China to Italy, Shun Li is sent from her factory job outside of Rome to work in a pub in a small town along the Venetian Lagoon. There she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a Slavic refugee and fisherman named […]
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Bernini: His Life His Rome
Lecture by Franco Mormando Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And Bernini’s artistic vision remains palpably present today through the countless statues, fountains, buildings […]
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La Scoperta dell’Alba
Movie Screening Cineforum The screening will be followed by a discussion with the Director, Susanna Nicchiarelli. SYNOPSIS: Rome, 1981: with seven shots from a revolver, two members of the Red Brigade gun down professor Mario Tessandori in the university courtyard, in plain sight. He dies in the arms of his friend and colleague Lucio Astengo. […]
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Dario Zucchi: New and Selected Photographs
ON VIEW: By appt. (Mon-Fri:10am-12/2pm-4pm), Reservations at rsvp@iicwashington.info Dario Zucchi explores those brilliant, generally unrecognized connections between modern art and its admirers. The photographer’s search for visitors displaying the perfect combination of colors, shapes, textures, and attitudes to be juxtaposed with paintings and sculptures, yields the delight of surprise and the shock of recognition. Introduction […]
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EUROASIA SHORTS 2013
Short Films from Europe, Asia and the United States EuroAsia Shorts proudly presents an annual week of short films from Europe, Asia, and the United States screened at embassies and cultural centers throughout Washington D.C.The theme for EAS 2013 is The Future. From careers to love to the stars, the future is wrapped in uncertainty, […]
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Medici con l’Africa (Doctors with Africa)
by Carlo Mazzacurati The documentary opens in the historic headquarters of Medici con l’Africa Cuamm (Doctors with Africa, University College of Aspiring and Medical Missionaries) in the center of Padua. Don Dante Carraro is a priest. He is also a cardiologist and for the last four years has been the director of Cuamm. There is […]
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AlmaLaurea
AlmaLaurea, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in Washington and the Italian Cultural Institute, cordially invites you to the presentation of the ALMALAUREA University Consortium, during which AlmaLaurea meets companies and American Institutions. To attend this event at the Embassy of Italy, RSVP HERE VIDEO STREAMING PROGRAM 4:30PM Welcome Greetings Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero Andrea […]
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Barrique: The Third Life of Wood
A second chance for young people and a third use of fine French timber – First a tree, then a wine barrel, now a piece of art. This is the essence of Barrique: The Third Life of Wood . This project was conceived by San Patrignano and famous Italian wood designer Maurizio Riva. The project […]
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FELLINI’S 8 1/2
at AFI Silver 50th Anniversary 50TH ANNIVERSARY! In his films with Federico Fellini, actor Marcello Mastroianni always registered as an alter-ego for the director, but never more so than here, where he plays Guido, a director who, following an enormous hit, has no idea what his next film will be about. Creatively stifled and unsure […]
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Tour Around Italy
Photographs from ANSA News Agency An exhibit on fascinating photographs taken by the leading Italian news agency Ansa Walk Through: May 23 On display: May 20 – May 24, 2013 Sara Forden (Bloomberg), Ryan Lizza (New Yorker), Frances Sellers (Washington Post), and Marcello Campo (ANSA) will provide a commentary on the Italy they know and […]
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