ANTHUS | CONCERT “CIAO FRANCO! TRIBUTE TO FRANCO BATTIATO”
The Italian Cultural Institute of Beirut presents Ciao Franco!, an original and deeply heartfelt homage to the great Sicilian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, interpreted by jazz singer and composer Anthus. Like Battiato, Anthus is Sicilian, and in this project he revisits some of his most beloved songs through the refined lens of contemporary jazz: not simple […]
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CONCERT OF “IL QUARTETTO DI CREMONA” | BEIRUT CHANTS 2025
The Italian Cultural Institute of Beirut is organizing, for the Beirut Chants Festival and as part of its 2025 edition, a concert by the renowned Quartetto di Cremona. ARTISTS Cristiano Gualco – violin Nicola Amati, Cremona 1640 Paolo Andreoli – violin Paolo Antonio Testore, Milano ca. 1758 (Kulturfonds Peter Eckes) Simone Gramaglia – viola Giovanni Paolo […]
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TAVIANI BROTHERS RETROSPECTIVE | SCREENING OF “LEONORA ADDIO”
The movie does not follow the plot of the Pirandello short story of the same name, but instead weaves together two separate narratives: the long and complicated journey of the author’s ashes after his death in 1936, and an adaptation of one of his final stories, The Nail (Il chiodo). When Luigi Pirandello died, the […]
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TAVIANI BROTHERS RETROSPECTIVE | SCREENING OF “CESAR MUST DIE”
A 2012 film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, shot in a docu-drama style that blends reality with theatrical performance. Inside the theater of Rome’s Rebibbia prison, the final scene of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is performed by a group of inmates from the High Security section. As the curtain falls, the actor-prisoners return to their […]
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TAVIANI BROTHERS RETROSPECTIVE | SCREENING OF “KAOS”
The film brings to life four tales from Luigi Pirandello’s 15-volume short story collection Novelle per un anno, all set in and around his native Sicily during the 19th century. Linking the stories is a raven, introduced in the prologue as it receives a small bell tied around its neck by villagers. This bird becomes […]
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TAVIANI BROTHERS RETROSPECTIVE | SCREENING OF “THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS” [LA NOTTE DI SAN LORENZO]
On a calm summer night beneath a sky full of stars, a woman begins telling her son a story from long ago, during the Second World War. The date is August 10, 1944. In the Tuscan countryside, the residents of the village of San Martino are forced to flee—their homes have been rigged with explosives […]
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TAVIANI BROTHERS RETROSPECTIVE | SCREENING OF “ALLONSANFAN”
Italy, 1816, during the turbulent years of the Restoration. Fulvio Imbriani, a Lombard aristocrat and member of the secret revolutionary order known as the Sublime Brothers, is arrested by the police. Once released, he is immediately suspected of betrayal by his comrades—especially after the mysterious death of their leader, Filippo. In truth, Filippo took his […]
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TAVIANI BROTHERS RETROSPECTIVE | SCREENING OF “MY FATHER, MY MASTER” [PADRE, PADRONE]
Winner of the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, this classic by the Taviani brothers is based on an autobiography by Gavino Ledda, “The One That Got Away”. Gavino is six when his father hauls him out of school to keep watch over sheep on a barren countryside, huddled in a makeshift hut night and day. The […]
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TAVIANI BROTHERS RETROSPECTIVE – CINEMA AS THOUGHT IN THE FORM OF VISION
In the landscape of Italian cinema in the second half of the twentieth century, few names have managed to intertwine civic engagement with the evocative power of cinematic storytelling as coherently – both ethically and aesthetically – as Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. Shy, reserved authors who remained distant from the spotlight of cultural celebrity, yet […]
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PREVIEW SCREENING OF “UN NATALE A CASA CROCE” BY PUPI AVATI
Directed by Pupi Avati Cast Paolo Spezzaferri, Teresa Cerciello, Chiara Barassi, Roberta Geremicca, Fenicia Rocco e Sabrina Bevilacqua Produced by Minerva Pictures in collaboration with Cinecittà Luce and Rai Documentari Written by Pupi Avati, Luigi Boneschi The life of Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and senator, is an epic tale of survival and passion, woven with […]
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