L’Inferno Silent Film – Live Soundtrack for Sax & Live Electronics by Marco Castelli
L’ Inferno, (1911) silent movie by Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro and Adolfo Padovan, produced by Milan Films, is the first colossal film in history of the Italian cinema. Adaptation of the first cantica of Dante’s Divine Comedy, only available in copies damaged, mutilated or censore, was, 2011, restored to its original edition, with the […]
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The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes its first video game – ITALY: Land of Wonders Launches Today for iOS and Android A NEW VIDEO GAME BRINGING ITALIAN ART, MUSIC AND CULTURE TO THE WORLD
Rome, Italy – 19 July 2021. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italian MFA) announces the launch of ITALY. Land of Wonders, a video game that is aimed at bringing the cultural heritage and wonders of Italy to a worldwide audience in general, and to young people in particular. Graphically appealing and targeted to both […]
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Martin Eden
When unskilled labourer Martin Eden meets Elena, the daughter of a wealthy industrial family, it’s love at first sight. The well-educated, refined young woman soon becomes an obsession for Martin who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his humble origins to be able to marry Elena. With determination […]
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Paolo Conte: via con me (It’s Wonderful)
Paolo Conte, one of Italy’s top-ranking artists, is also one of the most international and least portrayed due to his proverbial reserve and strict standards. His music, like a beautiful film, has the power to tell stories and elicit emotions. Conte is one of the greatest singers in the province of the world – to […]
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Volevo Nascondermi
Toni, the son of an emigrant Italian mother, deported back to Italy from Switzerland where he had a difficult childhood and adolescence, lived for years in a shack by the river without ever succumbing to loneliness, the cold or hunger. Meeting the sculptor Renato Marino Mazzacurati was his chance to return to painting, the beginning […]
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Notturno
The new film by award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi (Fire at Sea), Notturno is an urgent cinematic achievement from a master of the documentary form. Shot in Iran, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon over the course of three turbulent years, it is an intimate and devastating depiction of the civilian populations who have no choice but to […]
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Cinema Italia @Malta 2021
After the 2020 edition which was entirely online due to the pandemic, Cinema Italia @ Malta returns to cinemas – albeit with restrictions. It will consist of a review of five films not yet presented in Malta including a tribute to Dante Alighieri on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the death of the […]
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Book on Italian popular culture at the crossroads between folk and horror
On Thursday 15 July 2021 at 18:00, Dr Fabrizio Foni, senior lecturer within the Department of Italian and member of the Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies at the University of Malta, will be presenting the latest book which he edited with Fabio Camilletti (reader and head of Italian Studies at the University of Warwick).The book is […]
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Fare Cinema 2021 > David di Donatello Awards – Best Short Films
To celebrate the World Day of Italian Cinema, a screening of the five titles selected in the “Best Short Film” category of the David di Donatello 2021 Awards, in collaboration with the Italian Film Academy and ANICA. Available on the Vimeo channel of the portal italiana. Information Date: Saturday, June 19, 2021 Organized by : […]
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Three paintings by Maltese artist Mario Zammit-Lewis dedicated to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy
As part of the IIC – Valletta’s programme to celebrate the 700th Anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, on display at the Institute L’Inferno, Il Purgatorio e Il Paradiso by Mario Zammt-Lewis, a Maltese artist who studied the Divine Comedy 50 years ago, when he was studying Art in Turin. On display from 15 June to […]
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