art > FERLINGHETTI FOR SAN FRANCISCO
WEEK OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLDITALIAN HERITAGE MONTH Ferlinghetti for San Francisco Mauro Aprile Zanetti in conversation with Natalia Lauricella and Sally Martin KatzMonday, October 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM In conjunction with the exhibition Ferlinghetti for San Francisco, on view at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco from July 19, […]
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WEEK OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD – 25th ANNUAL EDITION
25th Annual Week of Italian Language in the World (SLIM) Italofonia: Language Beyond Borders Monday, October 13 | 6:30 PM FERLINGHETTI PER SAN FRANCISCO Con Natalia Lauricella, Sally Martin Katz e Mauro Aprile Zanetti Tuesday, October 14 | 6:30 PM CAMILLERI 100 Con Nadia Terranova e Michael Subialka Thursday, October 16 | 5 – 6 […]
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opera > RIGOLETTO
RIGOLETTO Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on Victor Hugo’s drama Il re si diverte. Saturday 27 September | 7.30 pm San Francisco Opera War Memorial Opera House 301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco Get the 20% discount reserved for the Italian Cultural Institute for the […]
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Italian Film Festival of Marin County
September 27 – November 1, 2025 Angelico Concert Hall, 20 Olive Avenue, San Rafael Italian Film Festival of Marin – 48th edition Festival director: Lido Cantarutti LEARN MORE & BUY TICKETS Originally started as an informal, one-time only presentation of Italian movies in a college lecture hall, the Italian Film Festival of Marin County has […]
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photography > WEST: FRANCESO JODICE’S AMERICA
WEST A photographic exhibition by Francesco Jodice September 26 – November 30, 2025 Italian Cultural Institute @INNOVIT 710 Sansome Street, San Francisco Free admission | Open M-F 10AM – 4PM by appointment (email: contact.sanfrancisco@esteri.it) The photographic exhibition WEST by Francesco Jodice will be on view September 25 through November 30, 2025 at the Italian Cultural […]
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cinegelato > MIXED BY ERRY
CINEGELATO Thursday, September 18 | 6:30 PM MIXED BY ERRY Dir: Sydney Sibilia Italy, 2023, 110 min With Luigi D’Oriano, Emanuele Palumbo, Giuseppe Arena, Francesco Di Leva In Italian with English subtitles EVENT SOLD OUT SYNOPSIS In the magical Naples of the 1980s, where Maradona reigns supreme, Enrico dreams of becoming a DJ. The amateur […]
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cinegelato > A WORLD APART (Un mondo a parte)
CINEGELATO Thursday, August 28 | 6:30 PM A WORLD APART (UN MONDO A PARTE) Dir: Riccardo Milani Italy, 2024, 112 min With Antonio Albanese, Virginia Raffaele, Sergio Saltarelli, Alessandra Barbonetti In Italian with English subtitles SYNOPSIS After 40 years of teaching in the Roman jungle, an elementary school teacher manages to be assigned to a […]
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cinegelato | LATIN LOVER
CINEGELATO Thursday, August 7 | 6:30 PM LATIN LOVER Dir: Cristina Comencini Italy, 2014, 104 min With Angela Finocchiaro, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Virna Lisi, Marisa Paredes In Italian with English subtitles SYNOPSIS The late Saverio Crispo was Italy’s greatest movie star and a womanizer: his 5 daughters born from 5 different mothers in different parts […]
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cinegelato> TUTTO QUELLO CHE VUOI (Friends by Chance)
CINEGELATO 2025 Thursday July 17th | 6:30pm Tutto quello che vuoi (Friends by Chance) Dir: Francesco Bruni Italy, 2017, 106 min With Giuliano Montaldo, Andrea Carpenzano, Arturo Bruni In Italian with English subtitles REGISTER HERE Alessandro, twenty-two, is an uneducated and troubled man from Trastevere; Giorgio, eighty-five, is a forgotten poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. The […]
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FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY > Maria Manetti Celebrates La Dolce Vita! honoring Ennio Morricone
Tuesday, July 15 | 6:30PM Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug 2800 Main Street | St. Helena Experience the enchantment of La Dolce Vita at this evening dedicated to the music of one of the world’s greatest film composers, the late Academy Award-winning Ennio Morricone. The celebration begins at Charles Krug, where the Festival […]
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