Looking to the East: some keys to understand the global success of Japanese culture

Let’s start with a fact that may have gone unnoticed: on August 18, Akira Toriyama’s “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” premiered in theaters in Argentina. During its first weekend in theaters, this anime film became a box office success over national productions such as “30 nights with my ex”. Surprise for some, obvious for others, … Read more

From 4 to 9 October 2022 Middle East Now returns to Florence, the festival that offers an immersion in the more contemporary Middle Eastern culture through cinema, documentaries, art, comics, music, food, meetings and special events

Middle East Now returns to Florence from 4 to 9 October 2022, at the Cinema La Compagnia, at the Cinema Stensen and in other city spaces, with a multifaceted program of events, including cinema, documentaries, art, exhibitions, music, food, meetings and projects cultural in a broader sense. This is a festival that has always been … Read more

Dreamlike and real journey to the “exotic” East through art

Attracted by the unknown, the imagined or what came through the notes of the first Western explorers, the East had a great attraction for the Spanish artists and writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Such was the case, that this double vision of the real and imagined East gave rise to one of … Read more

East and West. But the spirit of the West is also rationality and democracy

In the fallacious attempts to make sense of this war, even if this war has no meaning, Vladimir Putin evokes, obviously to stigmatize it and take it as a target not only cultural but military, the “collective West”, to which he attributes neo-colonial tendencies towards the rest of the world and in particular Eastern Europe. … Read more