RICORDI? (2018) | Haifa Film Festival (Golden Anchor Competition)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Valerio Mieli, with Luca Marinelli, Linda Caridi, Giovanni Anzaldo, Camilla Diana. A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple: recollections altered by moods, their different perspectives, and time itself. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply […]
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MARCO FERRERI: DANGEROUS BUT NECESSARY (2017) | Haifa Film Festival (Documentary Cinema)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a doco-film by Anselma Dell’Olio. A conversation with Anselma Dell’Olio will follow the screening. Marco Ferreri (1928-97) was a satirist of everything and a proud champion of bad taste, which made his films prophetic. His classic was La Grande Bouffe (1976), a descent into gluttony, drunkenness and sexual abandon that […]
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DAUGHTER OF MINE (2018) | Haifa Film Festival (Golden Anchor Competition)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Laura Bispuri, con Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu, Michele Carboni, Udo Kier. 10 year-old Vittoria lives with her parents in a small Sardinian community. Nearby, living in relative decrepitude, is Angelica, who is facing eviction for her failure to pay taxes. The unpredictable Angelica, […]
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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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