Exhibition from “Florence to Malta”
Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar and the Italian Cultural Institute will be holding an art exhibition under the patronage of the Italian Embassy, featuring the works of ceramist Joe Ellul Vincenti and Florentine artist Nicola Perilli. Joe Ellul Vincenti’s working life as an architect immersed him into the beauty of shape and the harmony of numbers, […]
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“Giuseppe Donati e Umberto Calosso: Żewġ Anti-Faxxisti Taljani f’Malta”
Official launching of the documentary film to Maltese and Italian authorities Giuseppe Donati – a Catholic Liberal, editor of Il Popolo and a close-collaborator of Don Luigi Sturzo – and Umberto Calosso – a socialist but also an anarchist and follower of Antonio Gramsci – were two refugees who ended up on Malta in the […]
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CODE SWITCH #1
What is CODE SWITCH #1? CODE SWITCH #1 is a research project combining epigenetics and video & performance art, conceived and carried out by performance and video artist Cristina Ghinassi in collaboration with geneticist and science communicator Dr Edward Duca Supported by Malta Arts Fund — Strand 1 Research Support Project, in collaboration with Spazju […]
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Novanta
A film by Marco Bonfanti, Claudio Giovannesi, Alina Marazzi, Pietro Marcello, Sara Fgaier, Giovanni Piperno, Costanza Quatriglio, Paola Randi, Alice Rohrwacher, Roland Sejko. (2014, 94 min. Documentary. Language: Italian, subtitles: English) The Istituto Luce turned ninety in 2014, its decades-long history intertwined with that of Italy itself, through cinema and that unique treasure trove of […]
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“L’intrepido”
Directed by Gianni Amelio Starring Antonio Albanese, Livia Rossi, Gabriele Rendina, Alfonso Santagata, Sandra Ceccarelli. (2013, 104 min. Comedy, Language: Italian, subtitles: English) Set in modern day Milan, this is a Chaplinesque odyssey through the world of work – every type of work, but primarily unskilled manual labor, seen through the eyes of a kind, […]
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“Fukushima No Daimyo”
Premiere of “Lord of Fukushima” [Fukushima No Daimyo] (2015, 20min, b&w, IT/JP language, English subtitles) with an introduction in English by its director Alessandro Tesei This poignant documentary follows Masami Yoshizawa, a lone, defiant and determined farmer who in 2011 refused to leave the forbidden exclusion zone set up around the Fukushima nuclear power plant […]
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“Le ville venete di Andrea Palladio”
After the summer break The Magic Box starts again with Vicenza and the Palladian Villas. Vicenza is one of the best places in Veneto, a beautiful city, full of palaces, villas, churches and monuments. When you say “Vicenza” you can’t help thinking of Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, known to history as Palladio, an architect […]
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“La variabile umana”
Directed by Bruno Oliviero Starring Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Battiston, Sandra Ceccarelli, Alice Raffaelli, Renato Sarti, Arianna Scommegna, Giorgia Senesi, Dafne Masin. (2013, 83 min. Drama. Language: Italian, subtitles: English) The first fiction feature of Italian documentary filmmaker Bruno Oliviero stars Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Batiston and impressive newcomer Alice Raffaelli. A weary-eyed Milanese police inspector and […]
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“Buongiorno Papà”
Directed by Edoardo Leo Starring Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, Nicole Grimaudo, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, Raoul Bova, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Mattia Sbragia, Ninni Bruschetta (2013, 109 min. Comedy, Language: Italian, subtitles: English) Andrea is a Roman manager, who lives in an apartment with his friend Paolo, who works playing the clown at birthday parties. One day […]
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Public Meeting with Sandro Gozi, Italian State Secretary for European Affairs
MEUSAC, the Italian Embassy in Malta and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, will be organising a Public Meeting with Sandro Gozi, Italian State Secretary for European Affairs. This event, entitled ‘From Rome to Lisbon and Beyond – the Erasmus Generation in Power’ will be held on Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 6.30pm, at the Istituto […]
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