Napoli in cucina – A Cooking Class
Food is one of Italy’s most wonderful cultural contributions to the world, on a par with its unsurpassed art, architecture and other famous innovations. There is no single, monolithic Italian cuisine. Italian food culture is very regional. With a varied geography, and an even more diverse history, Italian cuisine changes, depending on where you are. […]
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The Story of Light Festival | Light in Reflection with Silvia Verdolini and Manuel Scortichini
Light in Reflection is a game where light coming from few spotlights can be “transported” by multiple reflections off rotating mirrors. When light reaches the target, it reflects out of the installation in a rainbow of colors. Inspired by the words of the famous Italian physicist Galileo Galilei: “the book of nature is written with […]
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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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