NOME DI DONNA (2018) | Haifa Film Festival (Panorama)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Marco Tullio Giordana, with Cristiana Capotondi, Valerio Binasco, Stefano Scandaletti, Michela Cescon, Bebo Storti. Nina, a single mother, moves from Milan to a small village in the Lombardy countryside, where she has found work in a luxury care home. It is an elegant, almost fairytale world. […]
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LORO (2018) | Haifa Film Festival (Gala)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Paolo Sorrentino, with Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Euridice Axen. Paolo Sorrentino skewers Italian politics in this satirical, profane, and imaginative fictionalization of controversial Italian tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi and his inner circle. Loro comes to Haifa directly from its world […]
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SUSPIRIA (1977) | Haifa Film Festival (Midnight Madness)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Dario Argento, with Flavio Bucci, Alida Valli, Stefania Casini, Jessica Harper, Miguel Bosè, Barbara Magnolfi. When American dancer Suzy enrolls at a prestigious ballet academy in Germany, she and her roommate are caught in sinister web of murderous witchcraft on campus. A nightmare fairytale etched in […]
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XXXIV HAIFA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
14 ITALIAN MOVIES AT THE HAIFA FILM FESTIVALHaifa, September 22nd – October 1st, 2018 Fourteen 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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JUST LIKE MY SON (2018) | Haifa Film Festival (Panorama)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Costanza Quatriglio, with Tihana Lazovic, Basir Ahnang, Dawood Yousefi. Ismail escaped from Afghanistan when he was still a child and now lives in Europe with his brother Hassan. Their mother, who has never stopped hoping to hear from her two sons, no longer recognizes him […]
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LA FOLLIA by Monteverdi | Chamber Music
For the series “The Italian concerts of the Chamber Music Society”, a concert by the Estonian ensamble HORTUS MUSICUS. Event organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa. Early music consort Hortus Musicus was founded by its artistic director and conductor Andres Mustonen in 1972. Hortus Musicus is the oldest continuously working ensemble […]
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THE BEAUTY OF JEWISH ITALY | Art exhibit
An exhibition of pencil and ink paintings of Jewish Italian landscapesHELEN BAR-LEV | 23.6.2018 — 14.7.2018 You are cordially invited to theopening of the exhibition יופיה של איטליה היהודיתTHE BEAUTY OF JEWISH ITALYLA BELLEZZA DELL’ITALIA EBRAICA on Saturday the 23.6.18 at 11:30 a.m. Opening remarks: MAURIZIO DESSALVI,Director, Italian Cultural Institute, Haifa The Israel Painters & […]
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STORY CRUMBS | Free workshop for children
Event dedicated to our youngest friends: free reading workshops for Italian speaking children, by and with Maria Gavina Manca. Program: Lots of stories, which might get us lost in a forest and take us to meet an ogre; Let’s sing songs and play with bread crumbs and pebbles to keep our fears at bay! The […]
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FAREWELL DIRECTOR! GOODBEY HAIFA! | Farewell and thank you aperitif party
The Director Maurizio Dessalvi wishes to say farewell and thank you to the friends of the Italian Cultural Institute and to the city of Haifa. At the end of his mission in Israel,Director Maurizio Dessalvi will be glad to meetthe friends of the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa at a farewell and thank you aperitif […]
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THE VIRTUOSO VIOLIN | Chamber Music
For the series “The Italian concerts of the Haifa Chamber Music Society”, a concert by the Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble. Event organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa. Founded in 2001 by conductor Barak Tal (the Ensemble’s current Music Director), the Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble comprises 30 of Israel’s finest young musicians (ages 20-35), […]
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