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Watch this panel discussion hosted by Birds Eye Vie with Lucia Rinaldi an expert in the Italian Crime Narrative in Cinema, and Kate Muir, a film critic.
Bearing witness to the barbaric reign of the Sicilian mafia, Letizia Battaglia’s black-and-white photography captures decades of violence on the streets of her home town, Palermo. Kim Longinotto traces Battaglia’s journey from marriage aged 16 to a new career at 40 as the first Italian woman to be a photographer for a daily newspaper, defiantly pointing her camera at the devastation wrought by the Cosa Nostra.