On the occasion of Letizia Battaglia – Life, Love, and Death in Sicily, Filmhuis Den Haag will screen the documentary Donna: Women in Revolt on Saturday, August 1.

Prior to the screening, there will be a talk with curator Paolo Falcone and former correspondent and documentary filmmaker Yvonne Scholten. They will explore the connection between the documentary and Battaglia’s work, as well as her fearless perspective on power, resistance, and Sicilian society.
 

Practical Information

Date: Saturday, August 1, 2026

Location: Filmhuis Den Haag

Time: 18.45

Film language: Italian with English subtitles

Talk language: English

Price & Tickets: See the Filmhuis Den Haag website

Letizia Battaglia – Life, Love, and Death in Sicily

Amid a Sicily scarred by the Mafia, photographer, activist, and politician Letizia Battaglia (1935–2022) documented the raw reality of Palermo beginning in the 1970s. *Life, Love, and Death in Sicily* offers a comprehensive overview of her work and is now on view.

Donna: Women in Revolt

In this documentary, Yvonne Scholten chronicles eighty years of women’s resistance in Italy. The film depicts Italian women’s struggle for equal rights and continues to serve as a source of inspiration for the contemporary feminist movement.
 

Want the full experience? The exhibition Life, Love, and Death in Sicily is on view at the Fotomuseum Den Haag uitil August 23, 2026.
 

The restoration of Donna: Women in Resistance is a collaboration between Eye Filmmuseum and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, and was made possible thanks to *A Season of Classic Films*, an initiative of the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE), supported by the EU Creative Europe MEDIA program.

The film program is made possible in part by the Istituto Italiano Di Cultura – Amsterdam (the Italian Cultural Institute).