Icons on Screen #3. QUEI DUE by Wilma Labate
Quei Due (Those Two) is a portrait of Galeazzo Ciano and Edda Mussolini by Italian director Wilma Labate. Galeazzo and his wife Edda made history, travelling through it from the vantage point of their privileged position. The couple went from worldliness to political responsibilities, heading finally to a tragic end. Played in a Cinecittà theatre, […]
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Icons on Screen #2. IL MONDO A SCATTI by Cecilia Mangini and Paolo Pisanelli
Il mondo a scatti (The World in Shots) is a film by Cecilia Mangini, a 90-year-old photographer, documentary film director, and screenwriter, and Paolo Pisanelli, photographer, director, and curator, in conversation over things that are visible and invisible to our eyes. Cecilia relied on analogue technology, developing and printing her own films. Suddenly, she decides […]
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The Villains vs. Food Industry. A film by Donpasta at Barbican
Meet four Italian holdouts against commercial farming and the homogenization of food culture – all “villains” in the eyes of corporate agribusiness and EU lawmakers. Salvatore farms his market garden organically and is reviving an ancient local wheat variety. Luigina sells fresh vegetables and preserves at a local farmers’ market. Modesto runs his dairy farm […]
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Igor x Moreno – Karrasekare Dance
ICI London is pleased to support the latest and most ambitious creation by dance company Igor x Moreno: Karrasekare. Karrasekare is a dance inspired by the pagan carnivals from Sardinia and the Basque Country. This dance uses traditional rhythms to create free, fluid, and queer identities. It unroots these pagan centuries-old rituals from their original […]
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Icons on Screen #1. ALIDA by Mimmo Verdesca
The Italian director Mimmo Verdesca tells the story of the legendary Italian movie star Alida Valli, through unpublished letters and diaries that come back to life through Giovanna Mezzogiorno’s voice and other exclusive materials: photographs, home movies in 8mm, new interviews with her sons, relatives, friends and collaborators, including Dario Argento, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Charlotte Rampling, Vanessa Redgrave, […]
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Roma – Roman Nights
To mark the nomination of Rome to Expo 2030 the Italian Cultural Institute in London has curated the series “Roman nights”, showcasing some of the best films shot in Rome. While most of the choices will belong to the Neorealismo – a movement in Italian cinema characterised by stories set among the poor and the […]
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In Cammino – A Journey Through European Abbeys
We are pleased to share the news of a special initiative conceived by Livia Pomodoro and promoted by the “GIUBILEO 2025 – No’hma in cammino” Association. A pilgrimage to 14 of Europe’s most significant and prestigious abbeys, which over a period of three years, from July 2023 until the Jubilee year of 2025, will make […]
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Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name is a coming-of-age romantic drama based on the novel of the same title by André Aciman. Set in 1983 in northern Italy, Call Me by Your Name chronicles the romantic relationship between a 17-year-old and 24-year-old graduate-student assistant to Elio’s father Samuel, an archaeology professor. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of […]
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Bamboozle Summer School
24 – 28 July Bamboozle Summer School At the Curve Theatre, Leicester ICI London is delighted to support the Summer School by Bamboozle Theatre Company, which create immersive theatre for disabled children and young people. Tutors Christopher Davies and Nicole Arkless will share their methodology with theatre practitioners – directors, actors, musicians, designers, facilitators, producers […]
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Shorts Around The World 2023
ICI London in collaboration with the Italian Short Film Center (Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation presents a selection of short films selected among the most significant and representative of last’s year production. In Italian with English subtitles. – LA CONFESSIONE di Giuseppe D’Angella e Simone D’Alessandro – 2022, […]
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