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  • Art & Culture

    ‘This is Not Cricket,’ the Possibility of a Tolerant Future for Italy

    Monica Straniero(October 24, 2019)
    Shot almost entirely in Piazza Vittorio, Rome’s most culturally diverse neighborhood, the new documentary by Jacopo de Bertoldi presented at ‘Alice Nella Citta,’ a section of Rome’s Festa del Cinema tells of the friendship between two young men united by their passion for a game that in some parts of the world is almost a religion.
  • Arte e Cultura

    La battaglia pericolosa di Letizia

    Monica Straniero(June 10, 2019)
    Per ben 19 anni, al servizio del quotidiano di Palermo “L’Ora”, Letizia Battaglia è considerata una pioniera del fotogiornalismo italiano e simbolo della lotta contro la mafia. A 84 anni la fotografa si racconta nel nuovo documentario della regista britannica Kim Longinotto, “Shooting the Mafia", presentato in anteprima al Biografilm Festival di Bologna.
  • Art & Culture

    Letizia Battaglia’s Dangerous Battle

    Monica Straniero(June 10, 2019)
    Having spent 19 years working with the Palermo daily “L’Ora,” Letizia Battaglia is considered a pioneering figure of Italian photo-journalism and a symbol of the fight against the Mafia. Now 84 years-old, the photographer tells her story in the documentary by British director Kim Longinotto titled “Shooting the Mafia,” which was presented at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna.
  • Facts & Stories

    Dacia Maraini, Memories From a Japanese War Camp

    Roberta Cutillo(March 05, 2019)
    The world-renown author Dacia Maraini and her niece, film director Mujah Maraini-Melehi, discuss the importance of remembering the past and prevailing over hatred at the screening of "Haiku on a Plum Tree," a delicate but powerful documentary about the story of the Maraini family’s imprisonment in a Japanese concentration camp during the Second World War, presented at NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò.
  • Facts & Stories

    “It Will Be Chaos”: Stories of Human Strength and Resilience

    Giada Gramanzini(June 09, 2018)
    "An epic, yet intimate portrait of lives in transit and the human consequences of the refugee crisis spanning the Mediterranean. It Will Be Chaos unfolds between Italy and the Balkan corridor, focusing on two unforgettable refugee stories of human strength and resilience in search of a better and safer future." In conjunction with World Refugee Day on June 20, the documentary film directed by Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo is going to debut Monday, JUNE 18 (8:00–9:35 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO
  • Art & Culture

    Caravaggio-The Soul and the Blood

    Nicole Campisano(May 02, 2018)
    “Caravaggio-The Soul and the Blood” is making its West Coast premiere in Los Angeles. The film, produced by Sky Art Cinema and Magnitudo Film, tells the story of the famous, Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio and his works. This event was organized by the IIC Los Angeles in collaboration with Sky.
  • Art & Culture

    "Ghetto PSA" to Premiere in the US

    N. C.(April 27, 2018)
    On the occasion of Starring Europe: New Films from the EU, Rossella Schillaci’s “Ghetto PSA” will be premiering in LA with the support of the Consulate General of Italy, and the Italian Cultural Institute.
  • Art & Culture

    “Blaxploitalian” Screens in SF

    Nicole Campisano(January 30, 2018)
    As February celebrates African-American History Month, Director Fred “Kudjo” Kuwornu will present his documentary, "Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema,” at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco on February 20th. The documentary uncovers and analyzes the personal struggles African Americans, and actors of African descent face in the film industry.
  • Art & Culture

    'Fire at Sea' to Shine at the Night of the Oscars

    Tommaso Cartia(February 23, 2017)
    The recent surge in mass immigration has dominated the news—its trials challenging the moral compass of the developed world. Cinema has begun to respond by broadcasting the poetic and often urgent stories of these migrants. Italian Director Gianfranco Rosi's documentary "Fire at Sea" (2017 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature) and Italian-Moroccan director Adil Azzab's "My Name Is Adil" paint a complex portrait of the emotional realities behind the headlines.

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