'I Wanted to Hide') is a 2020 Italian biographical drama film co-written, directed and co-edited by Giorgio Diritti.

It stars Elio Germano as Italian painter Antonio Ligabue, who lived a notoriously reclusive life, troubled with physical problems and mental illness.

[1] It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.

Little Antonio is entrusted to adoptive parents and immediately begins to have psychophysical disorders, ill with rickets, and after being expelled from school and attacking his mother, he is hospitalized several times in an asylum.

[2][3][5] The film was scheduled to be released in Italy on 27 February 2020, by 01 Distribution, but it was indefinitely postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country.