PROGRAMME 2013 MARCH - APRIL ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA - NEW DELHI index index 6th March, 6:30 p.m. ITALIAN DIVAS IN BLACK AND WHITE ITALIAN DIVAS IN BLACK AND WHITE 9th March, 2:00 p.m. SILVANA MANGANO in RISO AMARO 3rd April, 6:00 p.m. SOPHIA LOREN in LA CIOCIARA Tessitori Hall Bitter Rice 6th April, 2:00 p.m. Tessitori Hall Two Women INTERFAITH CONFERENCE 7th March, NOMAD DANCE FEST “On World Religions Diversity, Not Dissension” 4th April, 7:30 p.m. 4:00 – 5.30 p.m. International Festival of Dance, Music and Cultures Azad Bhawan, ICCR Italian participation with a talk Tessitori Hall by Dr. Santiago Zabala GYPSY ROUTE 8th April, 7:30 p.m. 8th-20th March DOCUMENTARY EXHIBITION ISHARA INTERNATIONAL PUPPET FESTIVAL 2013 9th April, 7:30 p.m. National Library VOYAGE TO INDIA Italian participation with a show Kolkata by Ludovico De Varthema (1502-1508) by Pupazzi di Carta 10th April, 6:30 p.m. 8th March, Coimbatore EU FILM FESTIVAL 13th April, 2:00 p.m. ITALIAN DIVAS IN BLACK AND WHITE 21st March, Bangalore IL PRIMO INCARICO Tessitori Hall CLAUDIA CARDINALE in IL BELL’ANTONIO 5th April, Pune and Chennai The First Assignment 19th April, Goa ITALIAN DIVAS IN BLACK AND WHITE 17th April, 6:30 p.m. 20th April, Mumbai MONICA VITTI and LEA MASSARI in 20th April, 2:00 p.m. BOOK LAUNCH L’AVVENTURA 13th March 2013, 6:30 p.m. Tessitori Hall WHEN NOT IN ROME, DON’T DO AS THE The Adventure Tessitori Hall ROMANS DO by Stefano Pelle 20th & 21st April Theatre 14th March, 6:30 p.m. ITALIAN DIVAS IN BLACK AND WHITE 11th May IL RATTO DELLA FRANCESCA 16th March, 2:00 p.m. ANNA MAGNANI in BELLISSIMA Abducting Diana by Dario Fo Tessitori Hall Beautiful Directed by Avijit Dutt. & Designed by Luca Ruzza 20th March, 6:30 p.m. ITALIAN DIVAS IN BLACK AND WHITE 24th April, 6:30 p.m. ITALIAN DIVAS IN BLACK AND WHITE 23rd March, 2:00 p.m. ALIDA VALLI in SENSO 27th April, 2:00 p.m. STEFANIA SANDRELLI in Tessitori Hall Feelings SEDOTTA E ABBANDONATA A Matter of Honour ENCHANTING CIRCLES/MATRIKA 21st March, 6:30 p.m. Dance Show - Choreography by Luisa Spagna Tessitori Hall and music by Paolo Pacciolla Archeology 22rd March, 6;30 p.m. THE WONDERS OF SWAT India International Centre, Illustrated lecture by Annexe Lecture Room II Prof. Luca M. Olivieri - University of Bologna International CONFERENCE 21st-23rd March CITY CITY BANG BANG: University of Delhi Contemporary literary and cultural Department of Germanic representation of the city and Romance Studies Italian participation with lecture by Please note that the Multimedia Hall is now called the Tessitori Hall Prof. Mirko Tavosanis All events take place in the Cultural Centre unless otherwise mentioned. Programmes might be subject to change. Please visit www.iicnewdelhi.esteri.it or contact the reception desk for updated information. cinema lecture 6 mar 7 mar ITALIAN DIVAS IN ITALIAN BLACK AND WHITE paRTicipaTION IN (SILVANA MANGANO) THE INTERFAITH CONFERENCE RISO AMARO “ON WORLD Bitter Rice RELIGIONS 1949, 108 min. DIVERSITY, NOT DISSENSION” Director: Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor Giuseppe De Santis Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals at the University of Barcelona currently Cast: Vittorio Gassman, in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to EUROPE, A avoid the police, Francesca joins a group CONTAINER OF FAITHS teaches courses on contemporary Silvana Mangano, philosophy. He is the author of The Raf Vallone of women rice workers. She meets the Conference by voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy Dr. Santiago Zabala (2008), The Remains of Being (2009), and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Hermeneutic Communism, editor of Marco. Walter follows her to the rice 6th March, 6.30 p.m. Weakening Philosophy (2007), The fields, and the four characters become Thursday, 7th March, Future of Religion (2005), Nihilism and 9th March, 2.00 p.m. 4:00 - 5:30 pm involved in a complex plot involving Emancipation (2004), Art’s Claim to Truth Tessitori Hall robbery, love, and murder… (2009), and co-editor with Jeff Malpas of Consequences of Hermeneutics (2010). He also writes opinion articles for the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and others. Europe, A Container of Faiths. The aim of this paper is to point out how hermeneutics, the philosophy of interpretation, through its fusion of horizons can help Europe overcome its indifference. Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo thesis, expressed in The Future of Religion, will be used as a reference to recall how a religion without atheist and theist is necessary in order to implement hermeneutics fusion of horizons. Event organised by Indian Council for Cultural Relations. exhibition cinema 8-20 mar 8 mar VOYAGE TO INDIA ITALIAN by Ludovico De PARTicipaTION IN Varthema THE (1502 - 1508) 18TH EUROPEAN documentary UNION FILM EXHIBITION FESTIVAL The place was Rome and the year 1510 ALL ABOUT Nena, a girl from the south of Italy, has 8th – 20th March, when the first book ever on India was WOMEN to travel far from home to get her first Art Gallery published by a European. The Bolognese job as a teacher. She is sad because she is National Library, author Ludovico De Varthema, left Venice in IL PRIMO having a serious love affair with someone Kolkata 1502, travelled extensively to the east of the INCARICO from her village: they promise that nothing Belvedere, Kolkata Mediterranean Sea and reached the Indian The First Assignment will change between them. And so she peninsula, where he stayed for a long time. 2010, 90 min. leaves, a little sad and a little curious He chronicled his journeys in the volume Director: Giorgia Cecere about what is in store for her. But what first published in 1510. The exhibition also Cast: Isabella Ragonese, she finds is completely different from what contains a large number of contemporary Francesco Chiarello, she imagined: a school isolated on a high cartographic images by an anonymous Alberto Boll, mountain plain, wild children, people she traveller which dwells on the curious and Miriana Protopapa has nothing in common with and a hostile fascinating aspects related to plants, animals environment. She sticks it out because of and trade and life in general in the great 8th March, pride and because Francesco loves her for Asian peninsula. Coimbatore her courage, until one cold February day when everything goes wrong, everything Event organized by Archivio di Stato seems lost forever. 21st March, (National Archives), Rome and Istituto Bangalore Italiano di Cultura, New Delhi in Event organized by the European Union collaboration with National Library, Kolkata, Delegation in collaboration with the and Consulate General of Italy, Kolkata. 5th April Embassies of the Member States. Pune and Chennai “The testimony of one eye-witness is worth 19th April, Goa more than ten hear-says” Ludovico De Varthema 20th April, Mumbai book launch cinema 13 mar 14 mar WHEN NOT IN ITALIAN DIVAS ROME, DON’t DO IN BLACK AND AS THE ROMANS WHITE DO (ANNA MAGNANI) Presentation of BELLISSIMA book by 1951, 109 min. Stefano Pelle Director: Luchino Visconti Stefano Pelle returns to a post-liberalised Maddalena is a screen-struck mother Cast: Anna Magnani, India as an expatriate, and what starts convinced of her daughter Maria’s star Wednesday, 13th from there is a journey through emerging Walter Chiari, potential. Dreaming of a better life for March 2013, markets, peppered with personal Tina Apicella, her family - as a means of escape from 6:30 p.m. anecdotes and insights he gained during Alessandro Blasetti the struggles of everyday existence Tessitori Hall his stint in India. in working-class Rome - she invests Stefano Pelle is Executive Vice President 14th March, everything, including her last penny, and COO, Perfetti Van Melle Group. He 6.30 p.m. into the dream that her daughter will be has a double Masters Degree, a Post 16th March, discovered at an open casting. However, Graduate Diploma in Marketing and has 2.00 p.m. on overhearing the film crew’s candid attended various executive education Tessitori Hall assessment of her daughter’s audition, programmes in renowned institutes like Maddalena is forced to reconsider her the London Business School. Besides views on the film industry and its world of his deep business acumen, he has illusions…. profound interest in academics. In 2007 he published the book Understanding Emerging Markets: Building Business BRIC by Brick. Event organized by Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaboration with Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi cinema dance 20 mar 21 mar ITALIAN DIVAS ENCHANTING IN BLACK AND CIRCLES/ WHITE MATRIKA (ALIDA VALLI) SENSO Choreography and Feelings dance by Luisa Spagna 1954, 125 min. Music by The performance/concert joins the two Venice, 1866, last days of the Austrian Paolo Pacciolla Director: occupation: a performance of Il Trovatore projects Matrika and Enchanting Circles in Concept Sutra Arti a single musical stream. Matrika, a Sanskrit ends up in confusion due to an anti-Austrian Luchino Visconti Performative word, represents the Cosmic Mother, the Cast: Alida Valli, demonstration organized by Count Ussoni. Origin and is a trilogy of dances on three Massimo Girotti, The married Countess Livia Serpieri sees her 21st March, aspects of the feminine: Shakti, Matrika Farley Granger cousin challenging the Austrian Lieutenant 6.30 p.m. and Shekara. Franz Mahler for a duel in the opera and Tessitori Hall Enchanting Circles, a project on the singing 20th March, being arrested and sent to exile for one year. drum, considered “a strong contribution 6.30 p.m. When she meets Mahler, she first hates him to modern frame drumming” (Scott but after a night together walking along Robinson), is the fabric upon which 23rd March, Luisa Spagna weaves her dance.