Young Music Italy #3
Monday 27 March, 6.30pm Young Music Italy #3 The fusion of music and poetry – Opera, a quintessentially Italian genre (Last in the series Young Music Italy) Micaela Tiozzo at the piano and mezzo-soprano Francesca Sartorato will perform some of the best known operatic arias, with music by G.F. Handel, W.A. Mozart, G. Donizetti, G. Verdi, […]
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Pinocchio, Alice and Other Humanoids
Thursday 23 March, 7pm Pinocchio, Alice and Other Humanoids A round table with Professor Laura Tosi (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), talking about Alice and Pinocchio: National Icons and Vulnerable Children’s Bodies, Dr Georgia Panteli (University of Vienna and UCL), talking about Pinocchio and his many lives and ICI London’s Director Dr Katia Pizzi, author […]
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Giovanni Pascoli’s Convivial Poems: an ancient language for the modern world.
Monday 20 March, 6pm Giovanni Pascoli’s Convivial Poems: an ancient language for the modern world. Poetry reading with music. Elena Borelli presents a complete poetic English translation of a masterpiece of European Modernist literature: Poemi Conviviali (1905), by Giovanni Pascoli, one of the most influential authors of late nineteenth-century Italy.Giovanni Pascoli was one of […]
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Design Dialogues #1
Marco Sammicheli, director of the Museo del Design Italiano at the Milan Triennale, in conversation with Justin McGuirk, chief curator at the Design Museum, London. Moderated by Deyan Sudjic, Director Emeritus of the Design Museum, London On the occasion of the Italian Design Day (9 March 2023) Designers in Italy and Britain have a long […]
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Cinema Made in Italy – Dry
FESTIVALS & SERIES, SPECIAL SCREENINGS Cinema Made in Italy Siccità 97 mins in Italian with EN subs ITA | 2022 | dir. Paolo Virzì, with Silvio Orlando, Valerio Mastandrea, Elena Lietti, Claudia Pandolfi, Tommaso Ragno, Vinicio Marchioni, Monica Bellucci Winning several accolades at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, including the Pasinetti Award, […]
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Cinema Made in Italy – Margini
FESTIVALS & SERIES, SPECIAL SCREENINGS Cinema Made in Italy Margini 91 mins in Italian with EN subs ITA | 2022 | dir. Niccolò Falsetti, with Francesco Turbanti, Tommaso Renzoni, Silvia D’Amico, Zerocalcare Grosseto, 2008. Edoardo, Iacopo and Michele are the three young members of a punk band. Tired of performing in cheap […]
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Cinema Made in Italy – The Lord of the Ants
FESTIVALS & SERIES, SPECIAL SCREENINGS Cinema Made in Italy Il signore delle formiche 134 mins in Italian with EN subs ITA | 2022 | dir. Gianni Amelio, with Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Sara Serraiocco, Jacopo Relucenti, Leonardo Maltese Gianni Amelio’s The Lord of the Ants is a biopic of Italian poet, […]
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Cinema Made in Italy – The Bone Breakers
FESTIVALS & SERIES, SPECIAL SCREENINGS Cinema Made in Italy The Bone Breakers 105 mins in Italian with EN subs ITA | 2022 | dir. Vincenzo Pirrotta, with Vincenzo Pirrotta, Selene Caramazza, Antonino “Ninni” Bruschetta, Luigi Lo Cascio Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces […]
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Cinema Made in Italy – Fantozzi
FESTIVALS & SERIES, SPECIAL SCREENINGS Cinema Made in Italy Fantozzi100 mins in Italian with EN subs ITA | 1975 | dir. Luciano Salce, with Paolo Villaggio, Anna Mazzamauro An insignificant cog in the wheels of a large company, Fantozzi starts his days battling against time (he must clock in) and overcrowded buses. […]
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Cinema Made in Italy – The Eight Mountains
FESTIVALS & SERIES, SPECIAL SCREENINGS Cinema Made in Italy Le otto montagne 140 mins in Italian with EN subs ITA | 2022 | dir. Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch, with Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Filippo Timi, Elena Lietti Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, The Eight Mountains is a story about […]
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