EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL for the screening of the movie ‘Drive Me Home’
Italian Embassy Cultural Centre invites you all to the EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL for the screening of the movie ‘Drive Me Home’ directed by Simone Catania on Friday, 5th July 2019, 4pm at Instituto Cervantes, 48 Hanuman Road, New Delhi- 110048.
Movie: Drive Me Home
Director: Simone Catania
Writer: Simone Catania, Fabio Natale
Genre: Drama, LGBT
Year: 2018
Subtitles: English
Cast: Nicola Adobati, Lou Castel, Marco D’Amore, Vinicio Marchioni, Chiara Muscato, Stephen Brian Tomasi, Jennifer Ulrich
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Participated at Turin Film Festival
Summary: Antonio is 25-year-old boy who grew up in a small Sicilian village. Today he’s living in Bruxelles and life’s expenses begin to bear heavily on him. Having no one to gohome to, he decides to sell the property he inherited from his grandfather and cover his financial needs. When he receives an offer, he needs to return to the village to conclude the deal. Before going back to Sicily, however, he decides to meet and spend some time with Agostino, the childhood friend he hasn’t seen or heard from for nearly 10 years who he discovers to be a truck driver and homosexual living just close to him in Antwerp. On a truck ride back home across Europe, our two friends find themselves confronting on their new lives, on the reasons that divided them and on what their true origins are.
No registration or passes are required to attend the screenings and they are open to everyone 18 years and over.
For all other movie details, including the brochure and screening schedule, can be found on festival website: euffindia.com
Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
50-E, Chandragupta Marg
(entry from Nyaya Marg)
Chanakyapuri
New Delhi- 110021
Email: iicnewdelhi@esteri.it
Dastangoi Summer Festival in Urdu/Hindustani
Entry : Tickets: Rs. 300, Rs. 350, Rs. 500, Available at :
Online : BookMyShow
Offline : At the venue if not sold out
Venue : Akshara Theatre, 11-12 B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi – 110001
Landmark : Next to RML Hospital Emergency Gate 5Venue Info :
Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations – ‘Shivaji Stadium (Airport Line)’, ‘Patel Chowk(Yellow Line)Exit Gate – 3’ & ‘R. K. Ashram Marg(Blue Line)’ Exit Gate – 4
Parking : Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital public parking or Inside Akshara Theatre
Event Description : THEATRE : Dastangoi Summer Festival in Urdu/Hindustani
Screening of the Italian opera “Il Trovatore” by Giuseppe Verdi
Italian Embassy Cultural Centre is pleased to invite you to the screening of the Italian opera “Il Trovatore” by Giuseppe Verdi organized by the Embassy of Spain and the Instituto Cervantes in New Delhi, Friday, 12th July 2019, 6:30 pm at Instituto Cervantes.
Entry is Free.
Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
50-E, Chandragupta Marg
(Entry from Nyaya Marg)
Chanakyapuri
New Delhi- 110021
Email: iicnewdelhi@esteri.it
Poem of an Ending
POEM OF AN ENDING is a stage adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Shesher Kobita’, a classic revered by many. The novel has been adapted as radio plays and into a film in Bengali. However, this is for the first time ‘Shesher Kobita’ is adapted for the stage in English for a wider audience. This literary piece is considered as one of the best works of Tagore.
The play recounts the iconic love story of Amit Ray, a barrister educated at Oxford, whose virulent intellectualism reveals itself in its opposition to all forms of tradition. He meets Labonyo in a car accident and the romance builds up in the misty hills of Shillong. Amit’s iconoclasm meets Labonyo’s sincere simplicity through a series of dialogues and poems. But will these two worlds finally meet? The novel explores the realities of love as romance and marriage through a meeting of two mature minds. The story is also supported by Ketaki, Shovon, and Yogomaya who have critical roles in this story of love and conflict.
The play is presented in a unique format where each lead character is represented by an actor and a dancer/movement expert. The unique combination represents love as genderless and universal. The format brings in the contemporary element to the play and makes the production engaging for a young audience. The core idea behind the production is to present Tagore in a new age format, which has not been done yet on stage. With POEM OF AN ENDING, we have attempted to bring Tagore closer to the audience of this new generation and introduce them to the global genius in a new format.
Homage Concert to the Leonardo da Vinci – Poetry of the Invisible
Italian Embassy Cultural Centre is pleased to invite you all to Poetry of the Invisible, Homage Concert to Leonardo da Vinci by Sensus Ensemble:-
Arianna Lanci: Mezzosoprano
Adriano Sangineto: Viola organista, organo di carta, piva a vento continuo
Marianne Gubri: Renaissance harp
Marco Muzzati: Percussions
Wednesday, 24th July 2019, 7:00pm at Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
Free Entry. Kindly bring a Valid Photo ID to present at the security gates.
Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
50-E, Chandragupta Marg
(entry from Nyaya Marg)
Chanakyapuri
New Delhi- 110021
Email: iicnewdelhi@esteri.it
“Dastan-e-Mahabharata” A presentation of the Mahabharata in Dastangoi
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Event Description : THEATRE “Dastan-e-Mahabharata” A presentation of the Mahabharata in Dastangoi form. Using poetry from various Urdu versions of the epic, and alternating this poetry with narration of the great battle
Performed by Fouzia Dastango and Firoz Khan
Written and directed by Danish Iqbal
“Nabbie’s Love” Japanese with English Subtitles
Event Description : MOVIE “Nabbie’s Love” Japanese with English Subtitles
Synopsis : Nanako quits her job in Tokyo to return to her home island where her grandfather, Keitatsu and grandmother, Nabbie, still live. In the ferry is SunRa who, dressed in a dandy tropical outfit, seems to have some nostalgic link to the island. One day, Nanako sees Nabbie and SunRa in each other’s arms. The illicit love affair shocks the conservative islanders. A formal clan meeting is held, the shaman is summoned and her verdict is that SunRa must leave and Nabbie must never see him again. Nanako learns from Keitatsu that, 60 years ago, Nabbie fell in love with SunRa but was forced to separate from him because of her family’s standing in the community. SunRa had to leave the island. Later on, Keitatsu, who is younger than Nabbie, married into her family. He also tells Nanako the secret of the bougainvillea flowers. Nanako begins to cry as the old man wearily tells her he never thought he’d see SunRa again. Nabbie never could forget her lover and she had faithfully written him once a year.
Director: Yuji Nakae
About the Film : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabbie%27s_Love
Habitat Film Appreciation Forum presents “Nostalgia for the Light” Spanish with Eng subtitles
Event Description : FILM & TALK : Habitat Film Appreciation Forum presents “Nostalgia for the Light” Spanish with Eng subtitles
In Chile’s Atacama Desert, widows search for the remains of their loved ones. A documentary that addresses the lasting impacts of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. The screening and discussion will be steered by Mallika Viswanathan, Film Research Scholar at CSDS.
Year : 2010
Film Duration : 1 hour 47 mins.
Director : Patricio Guzman
Old World Theatre Festival 2019
Event Description : THEATRE : Old World Theatre Festival 2019
WORKSHOPS, MASTER CLASSES & PANELS AT THE OLD WORLD THEATRE FESTIVAL 2019 will also be held.
An Old World Culture Presentation.
Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra presents ‘Krishna’
Event Description : Padmashri Shobha Deepak Singh (Director & Vice Chairperson – Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra) looks forward to your presence, at the presentation of Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra’s epic 43rd edition of ‘KRISHNA’.
Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra presents the mesmerising dance drama of KRISHNA, depicting the fascinating persona’s life, abounding with legends, myths, miracles and adulation, over a span of three thousand years, portraying the fascinating journey of the playful icon from his adorable childhood and youthful antics, to the centre stage of human reverence. To enhance the visual appeal of the show, the Kendra is using the LED wall for the first time.
‘Krishna’ emotes the intrinsic truths of life, appealing in their fundamental simplicity, as enumerated by Lord Krishna. These lie within the folds of innumerable anecdotes, ensconced in His life’s tales, perpetually inspiring in their traditional or modern context. Padamshri Shobha Deepak Singh’s meticulous vision and execution presents all aspects of Lord Krishna’s persona, endowing a fascinating energy to the presentation. Brilliant choreography, lighting, costumes, sound, technical support and ambiance which create a suitable background, contribute to making all her productions heart warming. In the showcase of violence, despite all odds, there emerges hope for eventual peace, despite apparent chaos in the present.
Produced and directed by Mrs Shobha Deepak Singh
Film Screening of ‘La ciociara’ by Vittorio De Sica
The Italian Embassy Cultural Centre invites you to the film screening of ‘La ciociara’ by Vittorio De Sica. The movie is subtitled in English and will be screened on Thursday, 22 August 2019 @ 7:00 p.m. at Italian Embassy Cultural Centre.
La ciociara (English: Two Women), roughly translated as “The Woman from Ciociaria”) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. The film was adapted by De Sica and Cesare Zavattini from the novel of the same name written by Alberto Moravia. The story is fictional, but based on actual events of July 1943 in Rome and rural Lazio, and during what the Italians call the Marocchinate.
Summary: Cesira is a beautiful widow and a successful grocery store owner in Rome. WWII is raging, and she fears for her beloved daughter, 13-year-old Rosetta, amid the daily bombings. They travel to the village where Cesira was born, where Cesira believes they will be safer. There, they are happy even as food dwindles. A young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira, who is too consumed with the well-being of her daughter and their survival to return his timid advances. As the allies advance, Cesira decides to return to Rome – and encounter the horrors of war at last.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone
Year: 1960
Duration: 100 minutes
Genres: Drama | War
Subtitles: English
Classification and Certification: Please visit the URL to view content advisory.
Wikipedia Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Women
Free Entry. Kindly bring a Valid Photo ID to present at the security gates.
Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
50-E, Chandragupta Marg
(entry from Nyaya Marg)
Chanakyapuri
New Delhi- 110021
Email: iicnewdelhi@esteri.it
Opera at Habitat Series. Verdi’s “Rigoletto” sung in English with English subtitles
Event Description : MUSIC FILM : Opera at Habitat Series. Verdi’s “Rigoletto” sung in English with English subtitles.
Sunit Tandon introduces the highly-acclaimed production by Jonathan Miller of Verdi’s masterpiece, relocating the action to New York’s mafia-controlled Little Italy in the 1950’s. Rigoletto, a clowning bartender, keeps his beloved daughter, Gilda, well away from the mob he works for, but is cursed when he angers Don Monterone. A fatal chain of events is set in motion, as Gilda meets the philandering mafia boss (Duke), leading to a tragic conclusion..
film screening of ‘Bianco, rosso e Verdone’ by Carlo Verdone
The Italian Embassy Cultural Centre invites you to the film screening of ‘Bianco, rosso e Verdone’ by Carlo Verdone. The movie is subtitled in English and shall be screened on Thursday, 5 September 2019 @ 7:00 p.m. at Italian Embassy Cultural Centre.
Bianco, rosso e Verdone is an 1981 Italian comedy film directed and starred by Carlo Verdone, playing three characters.
It was produced by Sergio Leone, soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone and guest starred by Mario Brega, all formerly scored in the Dollars trilogy and spaghetti western movies in the 1960s.
Summary: Three Italian have to move from their current city to vote to local elections elsewhere. Pasquale is an Italian emigrant living in Munich (Germany). He has to vote in Matera, Basilicata (south of Italy). He is genuinely happy to come back in Italy, even if just for some days; but the country he is dreaming is different from the reality he meets. Furio move from Torino to Roma with all his family. He is so niggler and heavy that Magda, his wife, is thinking to escape. Mimmo is a young good fellow, moving with his grand mother, from Verona to Roma. His trip is disturbed by worries about her health, while she is very calm.
Director: Carlo Verdone
Cast: Carlo Verdone, Elena Fabrizi, Irina Sanpiter
Year: 1981
Duration: 110 minutes
Genres: Comedy
Subtitles: English
Wikipedia Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianco,_rosso_e_Verdone
Free Entry. Kindly bring a Valid Photo ID to present at the security gates.
Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
50-E, Chandragupta Marg
(entry from Nyaya Marg)
Chanakyapuri
New Delhi- 110021
Email: iicnewdelhi@esteri.it
Two Day Theatre Festival
Mukhavaran Theatre Group and Kathascope Gurgaon present Two Day Theatre Festival comprising some of the best of our work.
The Schedule is as follows:
Day 1 (07th Sep):
05:30 PM – O’Henry’s #TheLastLeaf ( #AakhriPatta, Hindi Play – 35 mins)
06:15 PM – #Kamosh… #SabJayezHai (Hindi Play – 40 mins)
Both shows directed by Mr Yuvraj Sharma (National School of Drama (NSD) 1976-79 passed out).
07:15 PM – #DhoopKaEkTukada by Nirmal Verma
Design & Directed by Sahil Ahuja
Day 2 (08th Sep)
05:30 PM – Amelia R. Long’s #TheMountainComesToMuhammad (Hindi Play – 30 mins)
07:00 PM – #DhoopKaEkTukada by Nirmal Verma
Both Plays Design & Directed by Sahil Ahuja
The Trialogue Company presents ‘Tansen’ and ‘Meera’ Hindi Plays
Event Description : The Trialogue Company presents ‘Tansen’ and ‘Meera’ Hindi Plays
14 September :
About Tansen Play : Every artist has a journey. A journey of an endless search. A journey that is filled with ups and downs, acceptance and rejection, pain and satisfaction. The play “Tansen” explores this journey through the life of legendary Tansen. What was it that made him the great Tansen and what was his search till the end of his life?
Design, Direction and producer- Sudheer Rikhari
15 September :
About Meera Play : Meera is a legend. She is immortal. The word that strikes instantly when one thinks about Meera is “Devotion”. She is known for being the most ardent devotee of Krishna. But, do we know the other side of Meera? The side that was probably hidden to project her only as a saint.
Understanding Meera only through her poetry would be an injustice to her. “Meera the saint”, “Meera the woman” and “Meera the poet” are three completely different aspects of her life.
“Meera – Beyond Devotion” is an exploration of the rebellious and revolutionary facets of
Meerabai’s personality.
Concept, Choreography and Performance by Ridhima Bagga
Music by Susmit Sen and Sudheer Rikhari
Dramaturgy by Sudheer Rikhari
The Trialogue Company is a performing arts company based in Delhi. The Company indulges in creating new content and presenting it through three major streams of performing arts – Music, Dance and Drama. The company’s first production “TANSEN” was staged over 40 times in a period of two years in various festivals and theatres. The production travelled internationally to festivals in Dubai, Russia etc. and won the hearts of critics and audiences all over. The company intents on creating more such soul stirring content. “MEERA – Beyond Devotion” is the next production by The Trialogue Company.
Tribute to Agnes Varda
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Venue : The Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations :
‘Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1’ – Walk Direction
‘Khan Market(Violet Line)’
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description : FILM : Tribute to Agnes Varda by IAWRT & Alliance Française
26 September : The Gleaners and I / Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (Docu Film/2000/82 mins). Dir. Agnes Varda.
All around France, Agnès Varda met gleaners: field gleaners, urban ones as well as people connected to them. It follows them as they hunt for food, knickknacks, thrown-away items and personal connection, the many aspects of gleaning and the many people who glean to survive.
27 September : Jacquot de Nantes (French/1991/118 mins).
Dir. Agnes Varda.
Once upon a time, there was a boy who grew up in a garage, where everybody enjoyed singing. It was 1939. He was 8 years old and he liked puppets and operetta. Later, he wanted to study cinema but his father made him study mechanics. This movie recreates the early life of Varda’s husband, Jacques Demy
Japanese Film Festival 2019
Being Gandhi – A play based on the book by Paro Anand
Get your tickets here!
Insider: https://insider.in/being-gandhi-a-play-in-english-sep27-2019/event
BookMyShow: https://in.bookmyshow.com/plays/being-gandhi/ET00111736
Paytm: https://paytm.com/events/new-delhi/plays/being-gandhi-a-play-in-english/198748
Hey! So you’re 13 years old, Gandhi Jayanti is coming up and your class teacher has just given you a lame assignment where you have to behave like Gandhiji for a week. I mean…there are more important things a teenager has to worry about, right? Like pimples, and glasses, and cool clothes, and some things that can’t even be shared…But suddenly there is a cataclysmic event and your life is turned upside down.
Paro Anand’s new novel #BeingGandhi is a blend of fun, teenage angst, teenage rebellion, and all-too-soon coming of age, with Mahatma Gandhi at the epicenter. The play is a dramatization of the to-be-released novel.
Chandrashekhar – oh, how he wishes his parents had given him a cooler name – is cute, quirky, naughty and a little eccentric. His inner voice and mind are so active that it needs a whole character, known as C-In, to express itself, while his outer, nerdy, pimply self is C-Out. Even as he has fun and games with his school-friends and his family, little does Chandra know that the Queen of Boringsthan – Class Teacher, Preeti Ma’am’s Gandhi Jayanti assignment will change his life forever. It will probably change your too.
Performed by young Akshara Theatre, New Delhi actors Sharan Makhijani and Arjun Goel, as well as Lubhanshi Jain, Vidya Parthasarathy and the Akshara Repertory, Being Gandhi the play coincides with the release of Being Gandhi the book.
Tickets: Rs. 250 for 15 years and below and Rs. 350 for above-15 years, available on Insider.in, BookMyShow, and Paytm.
Tel: 01123742083
Film Screening of ‘Il Bene Mio (My Own Good)’
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Sahitya Aaj Tak, India’s Biggest Literature Festival Is Back And We Can’t Keep Calm!
What’s Happening
Fan of poetry, prose, music or drama? Well keep your eyes open and ears peeled because Aaj Tak is back with the 4th edition of our most favourite event in an even grandeur manner. The Nation’s No. 1 News Channel has brought us #SahityaAajTak, a literature festival which will take place on 1st, 2nd & 3rd November 2019, at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The festival is an initiative to highlight the importance of art and literature in today’s era. Plus you get a chance to meet and interact with some of India’s most renowned personalities from academic, art and cultural, and business worlds on one platform where they express their views openly and engage in a meaningful dialogue.
The lineup looks pretty compelling as well with names like Varun Grover, Anup Jalota, Chetan Bhagat, Kumar Vishwas, Devdutt Patnaik, Malini Awasthi, Rahat Indori, Waseem Barelvi, Swanand Kirkire, Udai Prakash and many more! Aaj Tak welcomes everyone to witness the magic of literature and its world. The entry for the event is complimentary on registrations. REGISTRATION IS FREE.
Pro-Tip
The event starts at 11 a.m. so, make sure to reach on time so that you do not miss out on anything. Also, do register before you drop by for the event.
