The Piazza Grande – Canzoni d’autore bil Medina
The Italian Embassy in Lebanon and the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut present the concert Piazza Gande, where passion and creativity, bewilderment and encounter, and homesickness come together. The show will retrace a sixty-year period, from 1940 to 2000, through some of the most iconic Italian singer-songwriter songs of that period. Through Alessia Squarcella’s voice, […]
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Borromini and Bernini: The Challenge for Perfection
In the framework of the 9th Edition of the Beirut Art Film Festival – BAFF, the Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to announce the screening of the documentary Borromini and Bernini. The Challenge for Perfection. Italy, 2023, 102′, Giovanni Troilo, O.V/Eng. sub. at Bathish Auditorium – West Hall – AUB. Borromini and Bernini: The Challenge […]
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Screening of the movie “Dante” by Pupi Avati
The Italian Embassy in Lebanon and the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut will screen the film “Dante” by Pupi Avati (2021 – 90 min.) on December 12th, 2023 at 8 p.m. at the Caracalla Theater. The initiative was created to promote the image of Dante in the world, given the undisputed relevance of the Supreme […]
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16th Beirut Chants Festival | 100 Years of Maria Callas
“You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.” Maria Callas This December 2023, the world will celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Maria Callas’ birth, an event that the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian […]
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9° BAFF | “PERUGINO. ETERNAL RENAISSANCE”
Perugino. Eternal Renaissance, directed by Giovanni Piscaglia, is a docufilm on the life and work of Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci, known to all as Il Perugino, who trained between two different but at the same time similar worlds, that is, on the one hand, architecture and the fundamental influence of Piero della Francesca, and on […]
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9th BAFF-BEIRUT ART FILM FESTIVAL
The Italian Cultural Institute in Lebanon is pleased to announce that as part of its partnership with the 9th Edition of BAFF, the following two events will be organized: “Perugino. Rinascimento immortale” Directed by Giovanni Piscaglia for BALLANDI (Italia, 2023 – 80 min.) “Il Perugino. Il meglio maestro d’Italia.” Exhibition by Stefano Baldi (2023) The […]
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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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