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IFF ST.PATRICK’S DAY – PRESS REVIEWIFF ST.PATRICK’S DAY – PRESS REVIEW

To download the press review: RASSEGNA STAMPA STPAT [...]

Minister Michael Ring and Ambassador Patrick Hennessy will open the Special St.Patrick’s Day IrishFilmFestaMinister Michael Ring and Ambassador Patrick Hennessy will open the Special St.Patrick’s Day IrishFilmFesta

  The "Saint Patrick Special" will open officially at 3.30 pm. The public will be addressed by [...]

The Secret of Kells and a master class by director Nora Twomey at IrishFilmFestaThe Secret of Kells and a master class by director Nora Twomey at IrishFilmFesta

To conclude its special one-day event dedicated to animation, the IrishFilmFesta presents The Secret of Kells [...]

Screening in 3D of The Boy in The Bubble and award to Kealan O’RourkeScreening in 3D of The Boy in The Bubble and award to Kealan O’Rourke

On Sunday 17th March, during the Saint Patrick Special, The Boy in the Bubble, which won last winter’s [...]


Silvia Calamati at Irish Film Festa to talk about his upcoming book about Bobby Sands

Friday 27th November, on the occasion of the screening of Hunger (S. McQueen, 2008) Silvia Calamati, journalist and writer, will take part in Irish Film Festa to present her new book about IRA activist Bobby Sands, publishing next May by Castelvecchi. Silvia Calamati has concerned herself with the Irish question since 1982, she has been working as a free-lance journalist for Rai News 24 and for the Italian weekly magazine Avvenimenti, focusing on Ulster matters. She won the Tom Cox Award, she has translated One day in my life (Feltrinelli, 1996), the book written by Bobby Sands, and she published, one among so many, Qui Belfast. 20 anni di cronache dall’Irlanda di Bobby Sands e Pat Finucane (Edizioni Associate, 2008)