THE NIGHT PORTER (1974) | Haifa Film Festival (Haifa Classics)
At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Liliana Cavani, with Gabriele Ferzetti, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Isa Miranda, Dirk Bogarde. Digitally restored copy. Vienna, 1957. In a “fin-de-siècle” hotel, Max, the night porter, recognizes one of the guests. He had met Lucia, the wife of a conductor, as a teenage girl fifteen […]
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HOGAR (2019) | Haifa Film Festival (Panorama)
At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Maura Delpero, with Lidiya Liberman, Renata Palminiello, Denise Carrizo, Agustina Malale, Marta Lubos. Director in attendance. Sister Paola has just arrived in Argentina from Italy to take her final votes in “Hogar”, an Italian religious center for teen mums in Buenos Aires. Luciana and Fátima, both […]
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MIRACLE IN MILAN (1951) | Haifa Film Festival (Haifa Classics)
At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Vittorio De Sica, with Paolo Stoppa, Alba Arnova, Emma Gramatica, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, Virgilio Riento. Copy digitally restored. Once upon a time, an old woman discovered a baby in her cabbage patch. She brought up the child and, when she died, the boy, Toto, […]
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PIRANHAS (2019) | Haifa Film Festival (Carmel Competition)
At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Claudio Giovannesi, with Francesco Di Napoli, Artem Tkachuk, Alfredo Turitto, Viviana Aprea, Valentina Vannino. 15-year-old Nicola is happy to tear around the Sanita neighborhood of Naples with his delinquent friends. The neighborhood is under the control of a notorious Mafia outfit, Nicola decides to join, […]
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FLESH OUT (2019) | Haifa Film Festival (Panorama)
At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Michela Occhipinti, with Verida Beitta Ahmed Deiche, Amal Saad Bouh Oumar, Aichetou Abdallahi Najim, Sidi Mohamed Chinghaly, Aminetou Souleimane. Verida is a modern girl. She works in a beauty salon, is addicted to social media and hangs out with her friends. Still, Verida is engaged to […]
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XXXV HAIFA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
13 ITALIAN MOVIES AT THE HAIFA FILM FESTIVALHaifa, October 12 – October 21, 2019 Thirtheen Italian movies will be screened at the XXXIV Haifa International Film Festival, one of the most important and representative international film festivals in Israel. Italy presents some very recent productions, which have already been appreciated by both critics and general […]
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LITTLE ITALY: MINIATURE PAINTINGS OF JEWISH ITALY | Art exhibit
An exhibition of pencil and ink paintings of landscapes of ItalyHELEN BAR-LEV | 12.10.2019 — 03.11.2019 You are cordially invited to theopening of the exhibition איטליה הקטנה: ציורים מיניאטוריים של איטליה היהודיתLITTLE ITALY: MINIATURE PAINTINGS OF JEWISH ITALYLITTLE ITALY: DIPINTI IN MINIATURA DELL’ITALIA EBRAICA on Saturday the 12.10.19 at 11:00 a.m. The Israel Painters & […]
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CHIAROSCURO (Boccherini, Haydn) | Chamber Music
For the series The Italian concerts of the Chamber Music Society, a concert by the Ensemble “Phoenix, directed by Myrna Herzog. Event organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa. Soloists: Moshe Epshtein – flute Ya’akov Rubinstein – violin Sharon Cohen – violin Rachel Ringelstein – viola Myrna Herzog – cello Program: Haydn […]
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THE ‘ITALIAN’ CONCERTS OF THE HAIFA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY | Season 2019/20
All the ‘Italian’ concerts organized by the Haifa Chamber Music Society for the 2019/20 season, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa. 07.09.2019: FROM ITALY TO ARGENTINA (Rossini, Bellini, Gardel, Ginastera, De Serasate, De Falla, Ravel) 21.09.2019: CHIAROSCURO, by Boccherini 07.11.2019: BETWEEN MOZART AND PUSHKIN, with Pietro Bonfilio (Italy) – piano 23.11.2019: THE […]
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THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS by Paolo Cognetti (2016) | Book Club
For the series A JOURNEY THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE | Book club, nineth out of nine lectures by Shirley Finzi Loew concerning a number of subjects that have worried Italian literature in the past century: individual and society, self-fulfillment and relations between women and men. Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his […]
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