First night in Montréal with Pierfrancesco Favino
We’re pleased to invite you to meet Pierfrancesco Favino at the Italian cultural institute! Favino is one of the leading actors in the contemporary Italian movie scene, and he will be in Montreal for the premiere of his film Last night of Amore. During this evening, moderated by journalist Vittoria Zorfini, the public will have […]
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“IMA” – Dance show by the Komoco company
IMA is the latest show by Italian dance company Komoco, juxtaposing theater and dance, past and present, young and old, nostalgia and exuberance. Komoco was born out of the collaboration between choreographer and performer Sofia Nappi and her sister, violinist and composer Alice Nappi, and their shared passion for art. March 12 to March 16th, […]
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“100 Vases of Italian Design” Exhibition
On the occasion of the Italian Design Day 2024, the Consulate General of Italy in Montreal in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture is organizing the exhibition “100 Vases of Italian Design” (open from March 11 to 14 at the Italian Institute of Culture, 1200 Dr Penfield), highlighting Italian excellence in the field of design through […]
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Lascaux + Mad Max
Dance, light and electronic music merge in Lascaux, the performance by Italian artists Giulio Colangelo and Vittorio Montalti. Moreover, young percussionist Charles Chiovato Rambaldo will perform Mad Max by composer Pierre Jodlowski. Through Lascaux, the two Italian composers and performers pay tribute to the eponymous caves and the birth of Art. Inspired by Georges Bataille’s text on […]
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Reading club dedicated to “La felicità del lupo”, by Paolo Cognetti
Our next reading circle will have a novel from Italian literature as its theme and will take place on Thursday February 15th 2024 at 6.30pm. The reading circle will take place online, via Zoom. The invitation link will be sent only to those booked a few days before the event. It will be a nice opportunity […]
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If on a winter’s night a reader… Valentine’s Day with Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino is among the Italian writers who need no introduction. His novels including the trilogy Our Ancestors, Difficult Loves, If on a winter’s night a traveler, Invisible Cities, just to name a few, are modern classics that have accompanied and continue to accompany generations of readers in Italy and around the world. A light […]
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Voices in the Evening: a discussion on literature
Natalia Ginzburg and Primo Levi are among the most influential pens of post-World War II Italy. Both from Turin, Jews and anti-fascists, their paths as authors intertwined in the literary landscape of the second half of the 20th century. Domenico Scarpa, one of the leading scholars of Ginzburg and Levi, and the director of the […]
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Films cycle “Spaghetti Westerns”
Born in the mid-1960s, the Italian Western is a universe in its own right, whose cinematic language, anarchic tone and spectacular iconography have had a considerable impact. This cycle brings together the must-see films of the “three Sergios” (Leone, Corbucci, Sollima) and a diverse selection of films by the main directors of the period. Thursday, […]
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Screening of the film “America” by Giacomo Abbruzzese at the Cinéma Public
Claudio was born in Greece, raised in Venice, married in Taranto, and it was in New York that he was murdered after twenty years of pursuing the American dream. Giacomo Abbruzzese reconstructs his grandfather’s story, immersing us in the New York of the sixties, with Billy Joel’s notes and a gangster movie atmosphere. Through the […]
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Damiano Garofalo’s conference on the representation of the Holocaust in cinema
This conference proposes a rereading of the various declinations through which the tragedy of the Holocaust has been represented in Italian cinema from the post-war period to today. The central question that emerges from a viewing of these films is, in fact, the re-proposal of a paradigm, that of sacrifice, promptly applied to a good […]
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