(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 16 - The film UNA FEMMINA by FrancescoCostabile, freely inspired by the investigative book by LirioAbbate "Fimmine rebels. How women will save the country from the ndrangheta", in Italian cinemas from tomorrow 17 February, has been classified as Forbidden to minors under 14 from the Ministry of Culture - Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual.
"A decision that takes by surprise - underlines a note from the producers Tramp Limited and O 'Groove and Medusa Film that distributes it - because it is destined to limit the vision of a work that tells the difficult and courageous choices of women who decide to rebel against criminal organizations of mafia type , one of the most terrible plagues of our country. Women who, with incredible strength and defying blackmail and fears, decide to oppose a destiny already marked and who with their example demonstrate that there is always the possibility to choose another path, even if at Sometimes in some contexts it seems almost impossible. A film that therefore stands as an important testimony of ethics and courage, aimed above all at the younger groups of high-risk contexts,which, however, risks being banned in precisely those realities in which there would be more need.
"This is a film - says the writer Abbate - that has adolescents as protagonists. Girls and boys who must free themselves from the heavy domination of families of the 'Ndrangheta.
Banning the viewing of "Una Female" to minors under 14 means preventing them from reaching that part of viewers who would most need help to understand what situations they are in, and to provide others with tools to rebel.
This happens precisely at the moment in which in the scholese people talk about the mafia trying to give birth to a new awareness against the 'Ndrangheta.
All this appears as a sinister warning, all the more serious because it comes from the Ministry of Culture: it is enough to talk about the Mafia. "For Costabile there is" regret and displeasure.
It is immoral to restrict the circulation of certain messages.
Art must definitively free itself from limitations of this type, it is a must for the moral growth of our country and our citizens ". (ANSA).