The Secret Drawer is an intimate and multilayered documentary, directed with grace and restraint by Costanza Quatriglio. Inspired by the discovery of her father's archive journalist and magistrate Giuseppe Quatriglio the film becomes more than a family portrait: it is a poetic meditation on memory, identity, and the subtle interplay between personal and national history.
This is not a conventional biographical film, nor is it a nostalgic exercise. It is, rather, a silent dialogue across generations where archival footage and photographs become the raw material of a personal story that quietly resonates with universal themes.
The Secret Drawer is a delicate gem of documentary filmmaking a film that listens as much as it speaks, and one that transforms a private archive into a reflection on collective identity. Costanza Quatriglio confirms her remarkable ability to explore the emotional texture of memory with honesty, sensitivity, and profound respect.
Not a loud film, but an essential one especially in a world that too often forgets to remember.
