FALCON: A few days after Italy marked the 30th anniversary of the massacres of Judge Giovanni Falcone and his entourage and Assistant Judge Paolo Borsellino, Italian author Roberto Saviano presents a novel about the case.
GREEN GOLD: The forests of Transylvania have become a deadly battlefield with mafia methods and bestial murders of several forester. 650 forest rangers and activists have been assaulted. And in the middle of the power struggle over the Romanian forests stands the furniture giant IKEA.
Leonardo Palmisano: Ascia nera. La brutal intelligence della mafia nigeriana
HUMAN TRAFFICKING: The Nigerian mafia is smuggling both people and drugs. Threats, violence and voodoo rituals are used to force girls into prostitution.
SICILY: The southern Italian family remains a powerful institution. It slides seamlessly into the mafia's power structure, with its familialo amoral. The family is the law – not the social institutions.
MODERN SLAVERY: The Thai mafia tricks or kidnaps men who end up as slave laborers on fishing boats. A female activist fights for the lives of fishermen.
VENEZIA: Mafia and corruption were recurring themes in several films at the Venice Film Festival in September. But why are so many attracted to power, when it so easily corrupts over time?
BATTLE LETIZIA: She has never presented herself as Italy's "mafia photographer". Battaglia took pictures of Palermo, she says in the film – a city where the mafia is part of daily life.
: Ny Tid met the Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia during the Berlinale for a conversation about her photographic work and the Italian mafia today.
: The Italian author Roberto Saviano is sitting directly opposite me, four meters away in a black armchair. In the side scenes hidden behind the curtains, a large man in black stands on either side – with his hands crossed, armed, constantly on the lookout.