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VINCERE

MOVIE SCREENING The story revolves around Benito Albino Dalser, son of the dictator Benito Mussolini, and Ida Irene Dalsen. The film traces the tormented love between Mussolini and Ida from the day they met each other to the day their son ends up in a madhouse.   Italy, 2009 – color, 124 minutes Directed by […]

Part of DC Jazz Festival For the first time in Washington, DC, and as part of DC Jazz Festival, Italian music legend Pino Daniele will perform live at newly renovated Howard Theatre. Born in Naples, Italy on March 19, 1955, self-taught guitarist Pino Daniele recorded his first album at the age of 22. From the […]

EuroAsia SHORTS 2012

Short Films from Europe, Asia and the United States EuroAsia Shorts 2012, now in its seventh year, proudly presents a selection of 27 short films from Europe, Asia, and the United States, screened at embassies and cultural centers in Washington D.C. for five nights, June 4– 8, 2012. Each evening allows the local public to […]

The Cahokia Project:

An Italian-American Archaelogical Project in an Ancient Native American Metropolis Presentation Professor Davide Domenici presents The Cahokia Project: An Effort Toward the Integration of Different Scientific Traditions, a research project started in 2011 in the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (IL), and one of the most important archaeological sites in the United States, National Historic […]

Eurovision Song Contest 2012

On the occasion of the Eurovision Song Contest on May 26, 2012, a party will be held at the Embassy of Austria. The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among the 44 active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Eurovision has been broadcast every year since its inauguration in 1956 and […]

L’America non esiste

A ParoLab Event Book Presentation The Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with Italians in DC, present L’America non esiste (Mondadori 2012), a book by Antonio Monda. This book tells the story of two young Italians, brother and sister, who arrive in New York in the 1950s and are confronted with the harsh reality […]

Giovanni Falcone – An Italian Hero

PALERMO, 1987. Judge Giovanni Falcone and his wife Francesca Morvillo – Photo by Franco Zecchin Twenty years have passed since Judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and his three bodyguards, Antonio Montinari, Rocco Di Cillo and Vito Schifani, were killed in Capaci, Sicily, on May 23, 1992. Throughout his life Giovanni Falcone fought organized […]

Giochi d’Estate (Summer Games)

Directed by Rolando Colla Movie Screening The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic’s parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms with his father’s traumatizing violent outbursts in games with […]

Italians in DC Festival 2012

The Italians in DC Festival is organized by the nonprofit association Italians in DC to present Italy and contemporary Italian pop culture to Washingtonians. The Festival will celebrate Italy through arts, culture, music, food, wine, and educational activities for children. Italians in DC will bring a piece of Italy to the Nation’s capital inviting their […]

In the Light of Naples: Francesco de Mura in America

by Arthur R. Blumenthal, Ph.D. an illustrated lecture The lecture will show some of the finest paintings in America by Francesco de Mura (1695-1782), the greatest artist of the late Baroque in Naples. De Mura’s superb draftsmanship and luminous colors in harmonious compositions of religious subjects, intense portraits, and mythological scenes will be shown. In […]