Istituto Di Cultura - Washington

Roberto Rossellini’s films of the 1940s, Roma, città aperta, Paisà, and Germania anno zero - now generally referred to as a trilogy based on the Second World War - took audiences and critics by surprise. The Italian movie industry was completely devastated during the war. Casts, cr...

Singer-songwriter Simona Molinari is among the most well-loved of the Italian music scene. Molinari has collaborated with world famous artists like Al Jarreau, Gilberto Gil, Peter Cincotti, Andrea Bocelli, Dado Moroni, Danny Diaz, and many more. In Italy, she is best known to the public for the radio hit “In Se...

Danilo Rea (piano), Enzo Pietropaoli (double bass), and Fabrizio Sferra (drums) make up jazz trio Doctor 3, the three-time winner of Musica Jazz's Best Italian Jazz Group of the Year. Their daring improvisations and reimagined compositions are influenced by artists ranging from the Beatles to the Red Hot Chili Peppers,...

  Celebrating 14 years of short films from Europe, Asia, and the United States, presented in Washington, DC 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, DC. Every night includes a ...

What would films be without music? Music is able to convey what images cannot. The importance of a soundtrack can sometimes even transcend images and stories. Great movie directors often build the entire structure of their masterpieces around a score.  Cinema Italia is a tribute to Italian cinema and its soun...

Originally released in the United States in a condensed version, this is the complete uncut release of Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterful 1900, screened in two parts as the director intended.  The film opens with Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo’s large canvas Il Quarto Stato, painted in 1901 and now ...