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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SCREENING OF THE DOCUFILM “L’AMATORE” | 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 on Piero Portaluppi, L’Amatore. (Italy, 2017, 90 minutes), directed by Maria Mauti, original version with English subtitles. The screening will […]
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PLANTS & US | VISIONI Italian Ecoway of Lyfe
PLANTS & US is part of the Italian project VISIONI Ecoway of Lyfe, which develops five themes starting from a new idea of ecology in the perspective of Deep History. In the project, 38 Italian protagonists, including anthropologists, architects, artists, nutritionists, scientists, cooks and others, talk about another way of living in a series of […]
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Trees and new people for the planet | Francesco Ferrini
Trees and new people for the planet Francesco Ferrini “Protecting the environment is the fundamental question of the era we’re living in, the one that will decide whether there’s still a place for mankind on this planet. Our future and that of all other creatures on Earth seem to be unbearably threatened by the constant […]
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“ITALIAN SCREENS – FARE CINEMA” | JULY 13th, 2024 – “LA CHIMERA”
Synopsis La Chimera, directed by Alice Rohrwacher Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman […]
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