Fiore by Claudio Giovannesi
One of the discoveries of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Fiore is an award-winning drama from Claudio Giovannesi, the director of Ali Blue Eyes. The movie takes place in a juvenile detention center in Italy where Daphne, the 17-year old protagonist, ends up after being imprisoned for petty crime. While incarcerated there, she meets Josh, an inmate from […]
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Applications of Gene Targeting Technology in Therapies
The Georgetown University Italian Research Institute, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, invites you to a presentation and discussion on the latest research on “The Role of Immune Cells in Neuropsychiatric Disorders” featuring Dr. Mario R. Capecchi2007 Nobel Laureate in MedicineDistinguished Professor in Human Genetics & BiologyUniversity of Utah […]
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Che cosa sono le nuvole? (What are clouds?) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post–World War II era. An astonishing polymath—poet, novelist, literary critic, political polemicist, screenwriter, and film director—he exerted profound influence on Italian culture up to his untimely death at the age of fifty-three. Join us on February 6th for a rare screening […]
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Talea, a concert by Paolo Angeli
The Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC invites you to the concert Talea by Paolo Angeli. However you want to call it, nobody else is doing it quite like him. Paolo Angeli, the Sardinian sorcerer, manually crafts beautiful, multi-layered music from his unique designed guitar: a hybrid orchestra built in a single instrument with strings going […]
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The Lost Music of the Holocaust
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and Last Musik, invite you to an evening dedicated to the “Lost Music of the Holocaust”. Francesco Lotoro will perform some of the songs brought back […]
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Sleeping Beauty, from Ariadne to Walt Disney (and back), a lecture by Monica Centanni
“Let us tell an old story a new and we will see how well you know Maleficent (Walt Disney Pictures, 2014) Continuing on our series “Protecting Intangible Heritage” and as kick-off of the programs for the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage, the Italian Cultural Institute invites you to “Sleeping Beauty, from Ariadne to […]
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Il Conformista (The Conformist)
In Mussolini’s Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode–and murder–joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes back to a dance party for the blind; an insane asylum in a […]
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Europa Galante – Concert at The Library of Congress
Founded by the brilliant violinist and conductor Fabio Biondi, Italy’s Europa Galante is one of the world’s most admired period performance ensembles, particularly known for masterly performances of the music of Antonio Vivaldi. The concert highlights two of his dazzlingly imaginative Concerti dell’ Addio, the Farewell Concertos written in the final year of his life, and […]
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Il giorno più corto dell’anno ( The Shortest Day of the Year )
As part of our annual appointment on the shortest day of the year, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Short Film Center present 5 shorts illustrating works from some of the best emerging talents of the Italian film scene. Multiple subjects are touched in this year’s selection, ranging from a woman’s reproductive choice (Agata by Giacomo […]
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Alfabeto Falso: When the letters hide something, a concert by Simone Vallerotonda & I Bassifondi
The Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, in collaboration with CIDIM (Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica) and the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, invites you to a special concert by Simone Vallerotonda & I Bassifondi mirroring a typical instrumental session in 17th-century Italy, featuring some of the most representative works of that period performed in […]
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