“ITALIAN SCREENS – FARE CINEMA” | JULY 07th, 2024 – “PALAZZINA LAF”
Synopsis Palazzina LAF, directed by Michele Riondino Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be […]
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“ITALIAN SCREENS – FARE CINEMA” | JULY 07th, 2024 – “NON RIATTACCARE”
Synopsis Non Riattaccare, directed by Manfredi Lucibello Rome, March 2020. One of the many anonymous nights during the lockdown. Suddenly Irene’s (Barbara Ronchi) phone starts ringing. It’s Pietro (Claudio Santamaria), her ex boyfriend. She hasn’t heard from him for months, since their breakup. She hesitates, but eventually she answers the phone. Pietro is out of […]
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“ITALIAN SCREENS – FARE CINEMA” | JULY 07th, 2024 – “C’È ANCORA DOMANI” – TRIPOLI
Synopsis C’è ancora domani, directed by Paola Cortellesi In post-war Rome, a city torn between its newfound liberation and the miserable aftermath of the war, Delia (Paola Cortellesi) is seemingly resigned to her traditional role of wife and mother. Her husband Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea) is the undisputed master of the family, he works hard to […]
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“ITALIAN SCREENS – FARE CINEMA” | JULY 06th, 2024 – “IO CAPITANO”
Synopsis Io Capitano, directed by Matteo Garrone In this acclaimed film which won top directing and acting prizes at the Venice Film Festival, writer-director Garrone presents a “reverse shot” of the immigration experience while unfolding an epic, cinematographically magnificent odyssey. The story is told through the mind’s eye and experiences of two Senegalese teenagers who, […]
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“ITALIAN SCREENS – FARE CINEMA” | JULY 06th, 2024 – “L’ULTIMA NOTTE DI AMORE”
Synopsis Ultima notte di Amore, directed by Andrea Di Stefano People say about Franco Amore that he is Amore [Love] by name and by facts. He says about himself that throughout his life he has always tried to be an honest person, a policeman who in his 35-year honorable career has never shot a man. […]
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“ITALIAN SCREENS – FARE CINEMA” | JULY 6th, 2024 – “ROMANTICHE” – TYRE
Synopsis Romantiche, directed by Pilar Fogliati The stories of four girls who live in and around Rome: Eugenia Praticò, the aspiring screenwriter who fled Palermo to pursue success, as long as it is niche; Uvetta Budini di Raso, the aristocratic, beautiful, sleepy downtown girl making her business debut; Michela Trezza, who is about to get […]
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“ITALIAN SCREENS – FARE CINEMA” | JULY 5th, 2024 – “C’È ANCORA DOMANI”
Synopsis C’è ancora domani, directed by Paola Cortellesi In post-war Rome, a city torn between its newfound liberation and the miserable aftermath of the war, Delia (Paola Cortellesi) is seemingly resigned to her traditional role of wife and mother. Her husband Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea) is the undisputed master of the family, he works hard to […]
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“ITALIAN SCREENS – FARE CINEMA” WEEK, JULY 05-13, 2024.
“Italian Screens”, an initiative by the Ministry of Forein Affairs and International Cooperation together with the Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Ministry of Culture and organized by Cinecittà, lands for the first time in Beirut. For the occasion, the Italian Cultural Institute of Beirut will present four of the five finalist films […]
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GABRIELE STRATA IN BEIRUT
The Italian Cultural Institute and the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music, on the occasion of the World Music Day, are organizing a concert dedicated to Gabriele Strata, Silver Medalist, Audience Award, and Chamber Music Award winner at the 2024 Concours Musical International de Montréal. Following his tour in China, Strata will be performing in […]
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Fryderyk Chopin. Alessandra Ammara | Piano
The Italian Cultural Institute and the Lebanese National Conservatory present the concert “Fryderyk Chopin” by Alessandra Ammara (piano) at the Saint Joseph Church of the Jesuit Fathers in Beirut. This concert is entirely dedicated to Fryderyk Chopin’s music for piano, presented in a program that ranges from the genre of Ballades (the first, in G […]
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