Here comes in the room the second film of THE MONTH OF THE DOCUMENTARY "HIDDEN PAGES" Sabrina Varani (Italy, 2017, 67′), presented out of competition at the Turin Film Festival 2017

The Preview of the Film House on ROMA 22 Jan. hours 20,30 with the author's presence and of the protagonist and he will subsequently be screened in MILAN - BOLOGNA - FLORENCE - NAPLES - PALERMO - NUORO

With Hidden Pages continue projections of the Fifth Edition of The Documentary of the Month. The film, which premiered on the occasion of the week of Remembrance, There is a journey into the composition of the new novel by Francesca Melandri, one of the most interesting new voices of Italian literature. To write his latest book “Blood right” (Rizzoli, 2017), the writer confronts for the first time his father's inheritance, adhering to fascism during the two decades. A past that was unknown and that, through research in Italy and Ethiopia, daughter investigates and elaborates on his new novel, Finally confronting the removal of a country's memory and of its colonial past. A trip to the discovery of a father, different from what was believed. A journey into fascism, racism, in the removed memory. The unexpected discovery of a personal memory, which becomes the memory of our history.

The director tells Sabrina Varani: "The film was born on the wave of intuition, to tell what is behind the writing, of which the first inner material is made the words that make up a story. Mostly, I wanted to try to do it in retrospect, but while the novel is forming. Soon I was confronted with the enormity of the historical theme that Francesca had gone to touch, to a relatively recent period of which I like Italian I discovered completely unaware. Comparing them with my ignorance and understanding that it was not just my lack but a collective removal, I looked for a personal language to tell the story in a subjective, from the point of view that someone like me was discovering an uncomfortable past, shameful, whose parents or grandparents were accomplices and of which we have never talked. "

The writer Francesca Melandri, the protagonist of the documentary, observes: "The tragic misconceptions that a man has had in Youth are not the responsibility of his children. Just as the children of partisans have no merit of their heroism in the Resistance. Fascism and anti-fascism is not handed down by virtue of who knows who 'righteous blood'; each generation can only be measured on its own shares. But, that past removed the fathers, I can tell the children. This is the story that Sabrina, playing with the idea to follow between archives and Ethiopia – village where my father was never – It was found to film. And I willingly entrusted to his eyes, so sensitive and respectful. Because only a story back in the flow of consciousness can finally be left to go. "

Besides being presented in ROME, The film will make the tour of the peninsula on the following dates:

MILANO 24 January - Cinema Beltrade – Via nino oxilia, 10 (the presence of director)

NUORO 24 January - Isre – Regional Superior Ethnographic Institute - at Auditorium "Giovanni Liliu" Via Antonio Mereu, 56

NAPLES 26 January - Astra Cinema – Via Mezzocannone, 109 (the presence of director)

FLORENCE 28 January - The Cinema Society – Via Cavour 50/r (the presence of director)

BOLOGNA 27 January - Cinema Lumiere – Cineteca di Bologna (the presence of director)

PALERMO 29 GENNAIO - Cinema Red and Black – Piazza Verdi, 8 (the presence of director)

Now in its fifth edition, The Documentary of the Month is one of the most representative events dedicated to the spread of the Royal Cinema in Italy. A "popular festival" that offers the best of Italian and international documentary production in Rome and in a territorial network involving major Italian cities from north to south of the country.

The title of this new edition is the continent HUMAN. The films selected and presented to the public of the cities that host the event address, from different points of view, being the contemporary human condition in relation to the history and identity of their own country, how does the documentary Hidden Pages, that makes us reflect on the past and present history with the Italian writer Francesca Melandri.

The Documentary of the Month is created and produced by Doc / it - Italian Documentary Association in collaboration with Casa del Cinema and Kinema, with the support of SIAE Italian Society of Authors and Publishers. The project also enjoys the sponsorship of the University Roma Tre.

We offer you the trailer of the documentary that is a production worker Audiovisual Archive of the Movement and Democratic B&B Film in association with Istituto Luce Cinecittà and Distribution: Istituto Luce Cinecittà