Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria, in Southernmost Italy. Her mother's untimely death when Rosa was a child casts a gloomy shadow on her present life.
Proceeded by a panel discussion with film director Francesco Costabile, author and mafia expert Antonio Nicaso, and antimafia prosecutor Anna Maria Frustaci
Mini film festival ‘Donne di Mafia, having a voice’ returns for its third year at the Garden Cinema, in London. Organised by CinemaItaliaUK and sponsored by Jacobacci & Associati and the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath, Donne di Mafia film festival will take place at the Garden Cinema on 4 – 5 March 2023. Two features and a short film will be shown over the course to the weekend. The two features address the question of women in the Calabrian and Sicilian mafia contexts, while the short film proposes a different reading of events of post-war Italy, mafia, secret services and politics. Panels & Screening Stay Behind (2022) Film Director: Federica Schiavello Introduced by Felia Allum, Professor of comparative organised crime & corruption, University of Bath Una feminina, The Code of Silence (2022) Film director: Francesco Costabile Panel: Antonio Nicaso, author and mafia expert, & Anna Maria Frustaci, Antimafia prosecutor, Procura di Catanzaro, Italy Prima Donna, The girl from tomorrow (2022) Film director: Marta Savina Panel: Dr Rossella Merlino, University of Messina, Italy, & Dr Adalgisa Giorgio, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Bath & Associate Fellow, Institute of Languages, Cultures & Societies, University of London, UK