Trame - Mafia Books Festival

From 17 to 22 June 2025, Lamezia Terme will host the fourteenth edition of Trame Festival, the review dedicated to books on mafias that, this year, will extend over six days full of meetings, reflections and civil culture. Under the title ‘’Liberi Liberi‘’, the festival directed by Giovanni Tizian will involve symbolic places in the city such as the San Domenico Monumental Complex and Palazzo Nicotera-Severisio, the cultural and historical heart of the Piana di Sant'Eufemia.

Trame Festival 2025 confirms itself as an attentive and lively observatory on the fight against organised crime, thanks to the participation of leading figures of the Italian justice system such as Nicola Gratteri, Salvatore Curcio, Camillo Falvo, Pietro Grasso, Antonio Laronga, Marisa Manzini, Giuseppe Lombardo and Wanda Ferro. Alongside them, a host of journalists, authors, scholars and activists of legality, including Roberto Saviano, John Dickie, Enzo Ciconte, Michele Albanese, Nello Trocchia, Pietro Comito, Riccardo Giacoia, Attilio Bolzoni, Patty Torchia and Emiliano Fittipaldi.

The festival also features film and documentary screenings, including the film ‘’Cutro, Calabria, Italy‘’ by Mimmo Calopresti, which will open the event in the presence of the director and Andrea Fiabozzi, and the documentary ‘’Magma. Mattarella, the perfect crime' by Giorgia Furlan, dedicated to the murder of Piersanti Mattarella.

There will also be moments of collective memory in memory of Francesco Ferlaino, the first magistrate victim of the ‘ndrangheta, and Giancarlo Siani, a young reporter killed by the Camorra. The exhibition ‘’E lui che mi sorride‘’ (And he who smiles at me), curated by Alessandro Di Virgilio and Emilio Lecce, is also dedicated to Siani. It is set up at the Lametino Archaeological Museum and can be visited until 28 September.