Produced for Italian public television between 1972 and 1973 and broadcast by RAI, Diario di un maestro follows the real-life experience of a teacher working with a class of students from a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome. Through a rigorous, documentary-inspired approach, Vittorio De Seta reflects on education as a tool for social awareness and emancipation, portraying an Italy rarely seen on screen. A landmark work in the history of Italian public television.

COSTANZA QUATRIGLIO is an Italian director and screenwriter whose first feature L’isola premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. She has directed numerous documentaries and films shown at major international festivals, including Terramatta (Nastro d’Argento for Best Documentary 2013), Triangle (Nastro d’Argento 2015), and her most recent The Secret Drawer (Forum, Berlinale 2024). Since 2019 she has served as artistic director of the Sicily branch of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia’s documentary program.

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