Stockholm International Film Festival
From 11 to 22 November, Stockholm International Film Festival returns in the city’s movie theatres. This year’s edition the Festival is realized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm and the Italian Embassy in Stockholm, thanks to the integrated promotion plan Vivere all’Italiana. The Stockholm International Film Festival started in 1990 and is one of […]
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Stockholm Film Festival – Isabella Rossellini: Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award
Golden Globe Award-winning Isabella Rossellini, daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, became one of the film world’s most prominent names for her role in the, nowadays, cult film Blue Velvet by David Lynch from 1986. In 2020, the Italian-American actress, director, author and the former photo model is honored with the Stockholm […]
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Stockholm Film Festival – Pinocchio by Matteo Garrone
In Garrone’s live-action interpretation of the classic Italian saga, we get to know wood carver Geppetto, played by Oscarwinning Roberto Benigni, whose wooden doll Pinocchio is brought to life under magical circumstances. With groundbreaking technology, astonishing special effects and makeup, signed twofold Oscar-winning Mark Coulier, and stunning Italian landscapes, Garrone recreates the world-famous story of […]
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Stockholm Film Festival – The Truffle Hunters by Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw
The Truffle Hunters is a real-life fairytale that celebrates human passion in a community struggling to protect a way of life that seems forgotten in time. The film follows a handful of truffle hunters seventy or eighty years young, as they hunt for the rare and expensive white truffle—which to date has resisted all of […]
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Stockholm Film Festival – Stockholm Visionary Award 2020: Matteo Garrone
At the 31st edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival, the Stockholm Visionary Award 2020 is given to the Italian award-winning director Matteo Garrone, who has been praised by both critics and film lovers for his latest film interpretation of the classic tale of the wooden doll Pinocchio – a massive success in Italy. Garrone has already […]
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Italy in 10 Selfies – Symbola Foundation
Italy in 10 selfies 2020 is a project curated by Fondazione Symbola, that presents some of the country’s strengths. Italy is the second country in the world – after China – in fashion for market share, while the Italian wood furniture industry is first in Europe in circular economy. It also is one of the […]
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Jag ger dig en bok
Ti porto un libro – på svenska ”jag ger dig en bok”, är ett initiativ som Italienska Kulturinstitutet i Stockholm startade under 2020 och som går ut på att donera italienska böcker översatta till svenska tack vare översättningsbidraget som årligen delas ut av det Italienska Utrikesdepartementet och fonden Fondazione C.M. Lerici. Böckerna skickas till olika […]
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Visning av ”Intervista” av Federico Fellini på Filmhuset
Inom ramen för de initiativ som det italienska kulturinstitutet i Stockholm främjat i år till följd av firandet av Federico Fellinis 100 årsjubileum samarbetar institutet med Svenska Filminstitutet inför visningen av Fellinis självbiografiska film ”Intervista”. Filmen visas på FIlmhuset- Cinemateket i ”Viktor”-salongen. Visningen presenteras av Jan Lumholdt.Intervista är en amerikansk komedi-dramafilm från 1987 med regi av […]
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Elena Mazzi – Spicule
On the occasion of the 20th Week of the Italian Language in the World, the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm is glad to present Spicule, a project realized by the Italian artist Elena Mazzi. Spicule reflects on the essential link between human beings and the sea. This relationship is often subtended and sometimes misunderstood. These four sculptures are […]
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Sagan om björnarna som erövrade Sicilien – Biografen Zita
The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with Institut français de Suède, Rex Animation Film Festival and TriArt, presents the Swedish premiere of ”Sagan om björnarna som erövrade Sicilien” (The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily), an Italian-French animated film directed by Lorenzo Mattotti. It was selected to be screened in the Un Certain Regard section at […]
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