5 is the perfect Number by Igor Tuveri | Glasgow Film Festival
Artist and illustrator Igort (Igor Tuveri) has adapted his own graphic novel into a stylish, guns-blazing neo-noir sets on the rain-sodden mean streets of 1970s Naples. The great Toni Servillo lends weary gravitas to the role of Peppino, an old-school hitman and loyal footsoldier. When a family member is ambushed and killed, it is the […]
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Santiago, Italia by Nanni Moretti | Glasgow Film Festival
Even those who are well informed about Chilean politics in the 1970s will learn something new from Nanni Moretti’s fascinating documentary. At the height of the military junta, Italy’s embassy in Santiago became a safe haven for dozens of journalists, academics and artists who eventually left the country for a new life in Italy. Now, […]
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Simple Women by Chiara Malta | Glasgow Film Festival
Ambitious yet graceless film director Federica (Jasmine Trinca) has only ever had one obsession: cinema. One film in particular has always proved a particular inspiration: Hal Hartley’s ‘Simple Men’, where her obsession with Romanian actor Elina Löwensohn began. So when the opportunity to make a film about Elina, with Elina in the title role, […]
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Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello | Glasgow Film Festival
Pietro Marcello’s vibrant, multilayered adaptation of the classic Jack London novel has echoes of the great Luchino Visconti in its majestic sweep and focus on a man torn between personal ambitions and political ideals. Luca Marinelli was awarded the Best Actor prize at Venice for his towering performance as Martin, a sailor with a hunger […]
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Responsible Technology: are we ready for it?
Technology is at the heart of the world where we live providing food and drinking water, electricity, goods and services. Emerging technologies rise fast carrying the potential to deliver economic and social benefits to a world that is challenged to sustain 10 billion people. Engineering and technological and scientific achievements pose challenges and opportunities; the […]
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Federico Fellini 100
One of world cinema’s most exuberantly playful filmmakers, Federico Fellini’s career stretches from post-war neorealism to the MTV era. Although best known for his epochal early 60s films La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2, he first came to international prominence as a director in the mid-1950s, thanks to back-to-back Oscar® wins for La Strada and […]
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Patrizia Caraveo | The Lunar Renaissance
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing, the Scientific Office of the Embassy of Italy in the UK and the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh are pleased to present an event where Science meets Society with Patrizia Caraveo who will present her book Conquistati dalla Luna in conversation with Marialuisa Aliotta. […]
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Brexit Blues: Marco Varvello in conversation with Joseph Farrell
Brexit Blues, by Marco Varvello, published in Italian by Mondadori, is a collection of short stories about Great Britain at the time of Brexit, but also Europe and Italy at the time of the “Third Republic”: a former Minister who organises terror attacks, a fight between next door neighbours, a Chinese nuclear power plant on […]
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Silent City | European Capital of Culture Matera 2019
Silent City is a story that starts with people, whose unique voices are those of children and senior citizens – silent generations which lend their voices to the opera, together with composers, musicians, writers, singers, actors, drama tutors and international artists. The Italian Institute of Culture is delighted to support this artistic collaboration which […]
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Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana
A Lectura Dantis is a public reading and explanation of all 100 cantos of Dante’s Divine Comedy canto by canto. Each canto of the Commedia is discussed by a different scholar, and we have a wide range of expert speakers coming to St Andrews for each meeting of the Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana (LDA). 29th […]
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