The Story of Light Festival | Light Art with Cristina Olivotto
Bringing together 45 artists and scientists from 14 countries, The Story of Light Festival creates a magical learning playground. The festival has been conceptualised under the aegis of The International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, 2015 (IYL 2015), a project of the United Nations that aims to raise awareness about the breakthroughs in light […]
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Buonissimo! Understanding Italy through Food
Italy’s culinary tradition is one of the most celebrated aspects of its culture. It is however partly a victim of its own success. This talk examines the various unique and misunderstood aspects of Italy’s food culture, and discusses the material and cultural causes and effects of the commercialization of Italy’s food on a global scale. […]
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Colonizer/Colonized? – Contemporary Italy’s Immigrants and the Postcolonial Question
Italy is experiencing a vital crisis of extensive immigration from the East and South of the world that has major socio-political and cultural implications. Historically, a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, it rapidly became a preferred destination culture for immigrants especially since the 1980s. In this talk, you will learn […]
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It’s Gonna Take a Miracle by Davide Minnella
Between the depths of a story of miracles and the abysses, Gianluca and Elena go fishing for the truth about the evils plaguing the Mediterranean sea. Who is poisoning our fish and our waters? A half-serious inquiry on pollution and superstition. Will it always be funny? Davide Minnella is an Italian director, scriptwriter and television […]
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La terra e il vento by Sebastian Maulucci
Leonardo decides to quit school to devote himself to mountain-climbing rejecting his family and their rural life, unlike his brother, forced into it by the will of his family. When Leonardo is ready to leave for Nepal on a new climbing mission, his stepbrother Riccardo, who runs the family farm in Tuscany after his father’s […]
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L’ultima foglia by Leonardo Frosina
The story deals with the events in the lives of Zeno and Rossana. He is a night watchman and she is a musician. When they move to Rome for work reasons, things are already bad between them, and the change only worsens their sentimental inertia. In fact they begin to live in two different temporal […]
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Amori elementari by Sergio Basso
The film depicts the first flaming signs of love in human life. The characters are all ten year old and attend the same hockey and figure skating club in a small village set among the Italian Alps. The theft of a medal will trigger an adventurous escape to Moscow, where our six main characters will […]
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Like the Wind by Marco Puccioni
Inspired by a true story, Like the Wind narrates fifteen years of Armida Miserere’s life, who was one of the first women to become prison governor. Suddenly Armida’s companion, Umberto Mormile, is killed. To cope with the pain, Armida throws herself on the front line in the fight against crime, governing the most dangerous jails […]
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Vitamin – The Show
Created in cabarets and variety shows across Europe, Vitamin is an internationally acclaimed physical comedy that combines different styles of contemporary comic theatre into a hilarious and moving performance. It plays with our imagination in fun and surprising ways, through mime, storytelling, dance, puppetry, and the unconventional use of live accordion.In this physical and musical […]
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Vitamin – The Show At Mood Indigo
Someone rightly said that laughter is the best medicine. Have your best laugh this December at Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay’s humor fest with the longest running act in the Soho Theatre, London – The Vitamin Show by Carlo Jacucci.Preaching from a book he never read, Vitamin turns into many characters, creatures and things, including a […]
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