23rd Week of the Italian Language in the World | THEATER PLAY “THE ETERNAL MASQUE”
The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to support the Cultural House of Sarba in the realization of the play “La Maschera Eterna” [The eternal masque] inspired by Nobel Prize for literature winner Luigi Pirandello’s short novel “Donna Mimma”. The performance will will be held on November 5th at 6pm at the Le Monnot Theatre. The […]
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9° BAFF – EXHIBITION “PERUGINO 500”
Event organized also in the framework of the 23rd Week of the Italian Language in the World: “Italian and sustainability” under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic Perugino 500. To mark the 500th Anniversary of the death of the Italian artist Pietro Perugino, the Italian Cultural Institute presents a 15-poster retrospective exhibition […]
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28th EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL | FILM “THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS” – TRIPOLI
The Eight Mountains (Italian: Le otto montagne) is a 2022 drama film co-directed by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, who co-adapted the screenplay from the novel of the same name by Paolo Cognetti. The film depicts a friendship between two men who spend their childhood together in a remote Alpine village and reconnect later […]
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ITFF’S/APIDGE SECOND PRIZE SECTION ARTICLE 9 FOR THE SHORT FILM “SPRECATO”.
Our warmest congratulations to the students of the Italian language courses organized by the Cultural House of Sarba, Nabatieh Region in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Lebanon, for winning on October 8th the Second Prize Ex Aequo in Section 9 – promoted by APIDGE on the subject “2023: aware and active citizens for […]
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28th EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL | FILM “NOSTALGIA”
After a long time spent between Lebanon and Egypt, Felice, who has become a wealthy entrepreneur, returns to Naples, the city where he lived until he was 15. His mother Teresa, “the best seamstress in the Sanità district”, lives in a small ground floor apartment, and welcomes with open arms her son, who she thought […]
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28th EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL | FILM “THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS”
The Eight Mountains (Italian: Le otto montagne) is a 2022 drama film co-directed by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, who co-adapted the screenplay from the novel of the same name by Paolo Cognetti. The film depicts a friendship between two men who spend their childhood together in a remote Alpine village and reconnect later […]
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28th EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL | SEPTEMBER 25th – OCTOBER 4th , 2023
Organized by the Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon, in partnership with Metropolis Cinema and in cooperation with the European Union Member States, the Festival features a thrilling selection of films from Europe, as well as short films by emerging Lebanese filmmakers, thus offering the spectators a cinematic journey that bridges cultures and celebrates […]
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CONCERT “BAROQUE AT THE MUSEUM”
Within the exhibition “Mediterranean. Visions of an ancient and complex sea” the Nabu Museum, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, presents the concert “Baroque at the Museum” performed by the group “Les Cordes Résonnantes”. The talented mezzo-soprano Natasha Nassar, conducted by Maestro Joe Daou, will perform one of the timeless masterpieces of Baroque music, […]
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BAALBECK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL | DANCE GALA “ROBERTO BOLLE AND FRIENDS”
The Italian Embbassy and the Italian Cultural Institute are proud to announce that the critically acclaimed “Roberto Bolle and Friends” dance Gala will be the inaugural event of the 2023 edition the Baalbeck international Festival, with the support of the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut. Renowned as the new Nureyev, since […]
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8th BAFF ONLINE | FILM “VENICE, INFINITELY AVANT-GARDE”
Screening online of the film “Venice, Infinitely Avant-Garde” by Michele Mally, 2022 – 90’, OV/ sub. Eng. 1600 years after its legendary founding, Venice continues to be unique: for its urban environment, made of stone, earth and water, and because of its legendary history. But, above all, Venice is unique for its identity as a […]
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