Shooting the Mafia

Dir: Kim Longinotto
Starring: Letizia Battaglia

in Italian with English subtitles

Groundbreaking documentarian Kim Longinotto’s Shooting the Mafia unflinchingly explores the stark reality of life and death under the oppressive Sicilian Mafia. Brave photographer Letizia Battaglia stood up to the Mafia and, through her powerful lens, we enter this world of ritualised slaughter, silence, semi-religious oppression and feudal control. Through rare archive footage, newsreel and personal photographs and memories, the scale of the mafia’s brutality reveals itself in stark and unforgettable detail.

★★★★ “HEROIC PHOTOGRAPHER WHO EXPOSED ITALY’S NIGHTMARE” – The Guardian