Pinocchio | DELC Festival of European Theatre
***This event has been cancelled*** Pinocchio Freely adapted and directed by Carlo Pirozzi Assistant Director: Simone Caffari Students from Italian Studies, University of Edinburgh, are delighted to present a new Italian Play inspired by The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi (1826-1890). We invited students to develop their own versions of Pinocchio’s famous […]
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Filibus: The Mysterious Air Pirate | Hippodrome Silent Film Festival
The most exciting, witty, feminist, steampunk, cross-dressing aviatrix thriller you will ever see! Described in the New York Times recently as “the the spryest comic-book movie of the season” this light-hearted silent introduces us to Filibus… aka the Baroness Troixmond, aka the cross-dressing Count de la Brive. Flying high above the Italian Riviera in her […]
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Paradise by Davide Del Degan | Glasgow Film Festival
Doing the right thing carries risks and rewards in Paradise, a wonderfully melancholic fish out of water farce with a soulful performance from rising star Vincenzo Nemolato. Sicilian slushie vendor Calogero is enrolled in a witness protection programme after observing a Mafia killing. Now he is far from home as the sole resident of the […]
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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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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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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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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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