On the occasion of the “19th Week of the Italian Language in the World,” the Embassy of Italy is pleased to announce a Video Contest for Italian language students in the United States. Each year, Italian Language Week has a different underlying theme and a vast cultural program to advance the promotion of our Italian language.

This year, the theme is “L’Italiano Sul Palcoscenico” (“Italian on the Stage”). Students, individually or in groups, are asked to create a short video in Italian of the topic “Why is Leonardo a genius?” to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death.