Cinema Italia UK are proud to announce the return of the Mini Film Festival DONNE DI MAFIA, FINDING A VOICE for its fourth edition at Riverside Studios on 16-17 March. The two-day festival focuses on women’s role, presence, and agency of women in the context of Italian mafias, which was part of a research project funded by a Leverhulme Major Fellowship awarded by the Leverhulme Trust in 2018. New research in the field emphasises the complex existence within the criminal underworld, demonstrating how mafias, like other organised crime groups, need women to survive and flourish.