Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – IDDU-SICILIAN LETTERS
IDDU | SICILIAN LETTERS (122 min, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza) Sicily, early 2000s. After a few years in prison for mafia, Catello, a career politician, has lost everything. When the Italian intelligence service asks him for help in catching Matteo, his godson and the last prominent fugitive mafia boss out there, Catello seizes the […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – LA VITA ACCANTO
LA VITA ACCANTO (100 min, Marco Tullio Giordana) In Vicenza, a beautiful Italian art city, a young wealthy couple joyfully welcomes the birth of a long-awaited daughter in the early 1980s. But the child’s face is disfigured by a red birthmark that covers half her face. This spot haunts the mother to the point that […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – FAMILIA
FAMILIA (120 min, Francesco Costabile) Rome, early 2000s. Luigi Celeste, known as Gigi, lives with his brother Alessandro and their mother Licia, who separated from their violent father Franco. When Franco is released from prison and shows up again, Gigi will be forced to confront his past and take crucial decisions for his future. DIRECTOR’S […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – MY SUMMER WITH IRÈNE
MY SUMMER WITH IRÈNE (90 min, Carlo Sironi) Italy, 1997. When Clara and Irène, both 17, meet they are nothing like each other but get on marvelously well. They run away together to a faraway island off the coast of Sicily to live their summer freely, and to hide from a reality they want to […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – WEIGHTLESS
WEIGHTLESS (94 min, Sara Fgaier) Gian fights the darkness caused by sudden amnesia. Miriam, the daughter he does not recognize, gives him a diary he wrote in his twenties, revolving around Leila, a girl with whom he discovered love over the course of one night. This exacerbates Gian’s pain but pushes him to find himself […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – FEELING BETTER
FEELING BETTER (93 min, Valerio Mastandrea) A man spends peacefully his days in hospital without too many worries. He has been hospitalized for a while but that condition seems like the best way to live his life, safe from everything and everyone, without responsibilities and problems of any kind. It feels really good in there […]
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Italian Film Festival In Lebanon – VERMIGLIO
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 First Edition of the Italian Film Festival in Lebanon. The Festival will open on January 24th, 2025 at the new Metropolis Cinema in Mar Mikhael (Beirut) with […]
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XXIV SLIM – “ITALIAN AND THE BOOK: THE WORLD BETWEEN THE LINES” | PRESENTATION OF THE PUBLICATION “THE PLEASURE BOOK OF THOSE WHO YEARN TO CROSS THE HORIZONS | THE TALE OF ITALIAN SCIENCE ”
Event organized as part of the XXIV Week of Italian Language in the World: “Italian and the book: the world between the lines” under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic. Presentation of the bilingual Italian/Arabic publication “Book of the pleasure of those who yearn to cross horizons | The tale of Italian […]
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BEIRUT CHANTS 2024 | PUCCINI 100th Anniversary Concert
As we commemorate the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s passing, the Italian Cultural Institute, under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Beirut and in collaboration with the Beirut Chants Festival, proudly presents: PUCCINI 100th Anniversary Concert Featuring: Bechara Moufarrej, Tenor Notre Dame University Choir and Orchestra Fr. Khalil Rahme, Conductor Part of the program honors […]
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SCREENING OF THE DOCUFILM “GREEN OVER GRAY: EMILIO AMBASZ” | BEIRUT ART FILM FESTIVAL – BAFF
On the occasion of the 10th Beirut Art Film Festival – BAFF, and as part of the section dedicated to Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to announce the screening of the documentary film Green over Gray: Emilio Ambasz. (Italy, 2023, 56 minutes), directed by Francesca Molteni & Mattia Colombo, original version with English […]
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