“L’isola degli arrusi 1939” – Exhibition
In the first two months of 1939 forty-five homosexuals from Catania and some towns in its province were arrested and sent to confinement on the island of San Domino, Tremiti, more than 700 km away. The forty-five people from Catania were men between 18 and 54 years of age arrested on charges of “passive pederasty”, […]
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L’Italie à l’écran – ”La seconda patria” by Paolo Quaregna – Cinema Le Clap Québec
They chose to leave their “bitter land” and found themselves in Quebec, a province that has always been open to interbreeding. Men and women of courage and resilience, available to let themselves be invaded by a “nomadic spirit”. Some of them, on their way to the northern cold mining regions, discovered (thanks to culinary and […]
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Festival Cuisine, Cinéma & Confidences Charlevoix
Italy will be at the spotlight at the 5th edition of the cuisine, cinema and confidences festival of Baie-Saint-Paul from November 4th to November 7th, 2022. An appointment for all, where the cinema is an excuse to pay tribute to the culinary arts. Three days of tasting, discoveries and exchanges with numerous filmmakers, producers and […]
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Screening of the film “Nights of Cabiria” by the Italian director Federico Fellini
Screening of one of the Maestro’s masterpieces, “Nights of Cabiria“, winner of the Oscar for best foreign film in 1958, considered one of the best in the collaboration between Fellini and his wife Giulietta Masina. Thursday, November 3rd – 6:15pm Cinéma Moderne5150, boul. Saint-Laurent, MontréalTicket “Nights of Cabiria”Director: Federico Fellini, Italy, 1957, 110 minutesIn Italian […]
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”Retour en Italie” – ”Il buco” by Michelangelo Frammartino
During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe’s highest building is being built in Italy’s prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders’ venture goes […]
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Screening of the film “Il bell’Antonio” by the Italian director Mauro Bolognini
A classic of Italian cinema, based on the famous novel written by Vitaliano Brancati in 1949, set in the bigoted Italy of the late 1930s. Wednesday, October 26 – 6:30pmSunday, November 6 – 6pm Cinéma Moderne5150, boul. Saint-Laurent, MontréalTicket “Il bell’Antonio”Director: Mauro Bolognini, Italy, 1960, 105 minutesWith: Marcello Mastroianni e Claudia CardinaleIn Italian with French […]
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Screening of the film “EST Dittatura last minute” by the Italian director Antonio Pisu
As part of the ‘INTERRAIL‘, (European National Cultural Institutes) presents the film “EST Dittatura last minute” Tuesday October 25 – 6 :30pmGoethe-Institut1626 Boul. Saint-Laurent Bureau 100, MontréalFree admission “EST Dittatura last minute”Director: Antonio Pisu, Italia, 2020, 105 minutiwith: Lodo Guenzi, Jacopo Costantini, Matteo Gatta e Paolo Rossi PisuIn Italian with French subtitles In the presence of Andrea […]
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Lorenzo De Finti Quartet in concert
The Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal welcomes on Friday October 21 2022, Lorenzo de Finti Quartet and the pieces of the new work Mysterium Lunae. A project born to bring moments of beauty and brightness into the darkness of the last two years. It was the search for a new musical adventure, different, acoustic, full of spaces, […]
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Book club “Lisez la littérature italienne!” dedicated to “Après la pluie” (Dopo la pioggia), by Chiara Mezzalama
“Après la pluie“, by Chiara Mezzalama, is the book of the month by lisez l’Europe: a reading club dedicated to contemporary European literature. The discussion, which will take place on Wednesday October 19 at 6pm in French, will be animated by Valentina Pancaldi who will interact with the author and readers via zoom. Please confirm […]
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XXII Week of the Italian Language in the World – “Triggering the boomers. The Italian of young people between old and new words” by Anna Rinaldin
On the occasion of the XXII Week of the Italian Language in the World (October 17-23 2022), dedicated to “Italian and young people“, under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, the Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal, presents the conference “Triggering the boomers. The Italian of young people between old and […]
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