Italian Cultural Institute - Calendar of Events
When:
November 3-30, 2015

Conference: Global Challenges for a Sustainable Economic Development


Date: November 3, 2015 at 4:30PM 
Location: Intercultural Center Auditorium, Georgetown University
               37th & O St NW, Washington, DC 20057

A symposium/discussion on Global Challenges for a Sustainable Economic Development.


FEATURING:

▪ Professor Enrico Giovannini

Professor of Economic Statistics
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Rome"Tor Vergata"
"The Data Revolution for Sustainable Development: Ethical, Technical, and Policy Issues"

▪ Ruth Greenspan Bell

Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Research Associate, Center for Decision Sciences, Columbia Business School
Visiting Scholar, Environmental Law Institute
"Getting to Yes on Climate Change; an Alternative to the UNFCCC Process"

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Cinema: N.I.C.E. Festival USA - Tempo instabile....con probabili schiarite - Partly Cloudy (With Sunny Spells) - di Marco Pontecorvo


Date: November 17, 2015 at 6:30PM 
Location: Embassy of Italy - Auditorium
               3000 Whitehaven Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008

In a village in the province of Pesaro, two friends, Ermanno (Lillo) and Giacomo (Luca Zingaretti), jointly manage a factory on the verge of bankruptcy that maifactures sofas. Their friendship is severely shaken by the discovery of a source of oil in their company’s courtyard. The lure of easy wealth and the arrival of consultant Lombelli (John Turturro) break the balance within the village and open up a gap in the armor of Paola (Carolina Crescentini), the awkward accountant Lillo’s teenage son (Andrea Arcangeli) has a crush on. While featuring a series of exhilarating sketches, this story also explicitly references the tragic death of Enrico Mattei.

Director: Marco Pontecorvo 
Italy, 2015, 95 minutes 
Film in Italian with English subtitles

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Photography / Music: Florence Capital of Italy 1865-1871


Date: November 18, 2015 at 6:30PM 
Location: Embassy of Italy - Auditorium
               3000 Whitehaven Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008

A photo exhibit with a conference and a concert on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Florence Capital of Italy.

Through the eyes of photographer Jon Guido Bertelli, this exhibition shows the places of the city linked to Florence capital. Prof. Tommaso Astarita will describe that period, while Dr. Francesca Hurst will play pieces which, at the time, were in the concert programs of the Florentine theaters.

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Conference: Italy and Alyah Beth by Simonetta Della Seta


Date: November 24, 2015 at 6:30PM 
Location: Embassy of Italy - Auditorium
               3000 Whitehaven Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008

Alyah Beth (literally the second 'ascent') is the name of the operation organized by the Jewish Agency to save the Jews Holocaust survivors and bring them to the Land of Israel (then the British Mandate). An epic in which Italy earned a special role. After the Second World War and the tragedy of the Shoah, Italy did indeed become, especially for its geographical position, the place of passage of the Jews who survived the Holocaust and who were trying to reach Palestine, or at least a safe place. Hundreds of thousands of lost men, women and children, without a family, a house or a reference crossed several borders to reach Italy, hoping to escape the ghosts of the past and to find a way to the sea through which recover, and perhaps, have a better life.

Simonetta Della Seta is a scholar and a journalist specialized in the History of the Middle East and in the History of the Jewish People. She graduated in Political Sciences in Rome under the guide of Prof. Renzo De Felice, a worldwide expert on Italian Fascism. She worked with him on several researches on the relationship between Fascism, the Jewish Communities of the Mediterranean countries and the Jewish National Movement. Della Seta speaks Italian, English, Hebrew, French, Spanish and Arabic. She is married with musicologist Massimo Acanfora Torrefranca and is mother of two children, Gad and Hanna.
 
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Cinema: La Sedia della Felicità by Carlo Mazzacurati


Date: November 30, 2015 at 6:30PM 
Location: Embassy of Italy - Auditorium
               3000 Whitehaven Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008

Bruna is a beautician who struggles to make ends meet. Betrayed by her boyfriend and hounded by an unscrupulous vendor, she receives a deathbed confession by one of her usual manicure customers who is in prison. Mother of a famous bandit, Norma Pecche has hidden a treasure of jewels in one of the chairs in her living room in her villa. Contemptuous of danger, Bruna goes to the villa, but ends up being locked behind the gate in the company of a wild boar. Dino, the tatooist next door, comes to her rescue, and ends up involved in the affair. Once they discover that Norma's assets and the eight chairs will be auctioned, Bruna and Dino try to track down the collectors in seek of the jewel stuffed padding. Through thick and thin, Chinese magicians, and the lagoon and mountains, Bruna and Dino will find their real treasure.

Director: Carlo Mazzacurati 
Italy, 2013, 94 minutes 
Film in Italian with English subtitles

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