After its first virtual edition in March 2021, the festival Donne di mafia is back as an in-person event with two wonderful films about defiant women.
Join us for a screening of Kim Longinotto’s Shooting the Mafia and a preview of Jonas Carpignano’s A Chiara.

3pm | Shooting the Mafia

DIRECTOR: Kim Longinotto
RUN TIME: 94 minutes

In the streets of Sicily, beautiful, gutsy Letizia Battaglia pointed her camera straight into the heart of the Mafia that surrounded her and began to shoot. The striking, life-threatening photos she took documenting the rule of the Cosa Nostra define her career.

This documentary weaves together Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs, rare archival footage, classic Italian films, and the now 84-year-old’s own memories, to paint a portrait of a remarkable woman whose whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Mafia’s brutal crimes.

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4:45pm | Director Kim Longinotto in conversation with documentary journalist, programmer and lecturer Carol Nahra

6pm | A Chiara

DIRECTOR: Jonas Carpignano
RUN TIME: 122 minutes

The story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria. Chiara starts to investigate to understand why her father disappeared and as she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.

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8:15pm | Post screening conversation with journalist & writer Clare Longrigg

'Donne di Mafia' Mini Film Festival 2022 funded by Leverhulme Trust, Jacobacci Law (Italia) and the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath.