ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL IN LEBANON 2026 – II EDITION
The Italian Embassy to Lebanon and the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut, in partnership with the Metropolis Art Cinema, have the pleasure to announce the opening of the Second Edition of the Italian Film Festival in Lebanon. The Festival will open on January 21st, 2026 at the Metropolis Cinema in Mar Mikhael (Beirut) with the movie “Primavera” by Damiano Michieletto. The […]
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IFF 2026 – SECOND EDITION | PRIMAVERA [SPRING]
Venice, early 18th century. Renowned for its exceptional music program, the Pièta orphanage is home to Cecilia, a 20-year-old violin virtuoso. Despite her extraordinary talent, Cecilia remains confined within the orphanage and like all the girls there, her only escape seems to get married. Yet, her life changes drastically when Antonio Vivaldi, a brilliant and ambitious […]
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IFF 2026 – SECOND EDITION | UN ANNO DI SCUOLA [A YEAR OF SCHOOL]
September 2007, Trieste, Northeast Italy. Fred, an exuberant and brave girl of seventeen, arrives in town and enrolls in her High School Senior Year. She finds herself as the only girl in an all-male class and quickly becomes the center of attention, especially for three friends: Antero, charming and reserved, Pasini, cocky womanizer; Mitis, gruff […]
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IFF 2026 – SECOND EDITION | TESTA O CROCE [HEADS OR TAILS?]
At the beginning of the 20th century, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show arrived in Rome to sell Italians the myth of the frontier-with blank rifle shots and cowboy spectacles. Against the backdrop of a legendary rodeo contest between American cowboys and Italian butteri , Rosa, the young wife of the local landowner, falls in love […]
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IFF 2026 – SECOND EDITION | GIOIA MIA [SWEETHEART]
Nico, a lively, stubborn, and cheeky boy raised in a secular family in a modern, technological, and hyper-connected world, is forced to spend the summer in Sicily, staying with his grumpy and devoutly religious elderly aunt. She lives alone in an ancient mansion filled with legends and superstitions, without Wi-Fi, appliances, or any form of […]
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IFF 2026 – SECOND EDITION | LA VITA VA COSÌ [LIFE IS LIFE]
At the dawn of the new millennium, two distant destinies collide on a still-unspoiled stretch of coastline in southern Sardinia. Efisio Mulas is a solitary shepherd, the silent guardian of a time that seems no longer to exist. He has lived there all his life, between the sea and his animals, in the small house […]
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IFF 2026 – SECOND EDITION | FUORI (OUTSIDE)
FUORI is a moving drama about friendship in adversity, female solidarity, and anti-conformism, inspired by the life of one of Italy’s most iconic authors, Goliarda Sapienza. Rome, 1980. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza ends […]
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IFF 2026 – SECOND EDITION | LE CITTÀ DI PIANURA [THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD]
Carlo Bianchi and Doriano, two down-on-their-luck men in their fifties, share a single obsession: going out for one last drink. One night, drifting by car from bar to bar, they happen to run into Giulio, a shy architecture student. The encounter with these two unlikely mentors will profoundly change Giulio’s way of seeing the world […]
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IFF 2026 – SECOND EDITION | LA VALLE DEI SORRISI [THE HOLY BOY]
Remis is a small village nestled in a secluded valley in the mountains. Its inhabitants are all unusually happy. It seems the perfect destination for new PE teacher Sergio Rossetti, haunted by a mysterious past. Thanks to an encounter with Michela, the young owner of the village inn, the teacher discovers that behind the seeming […]
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IFF 2026 – SECOND EDITION | DUSE
Eleonora Duse’s legendary career seems over, but in the ferocious times between the Great War and the rise of fascism, the Divina feels a call stronger than any resignation and returns to where her life began: on stage. It’s not just the call to acting that drives her, but a profound urgency: the need to […]
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