The Ignorant Fairies (Le fate ignoranti)

Cahil Periler (The Ignorant Fairies; Italian title Le fate ignoranti) is a 2001 drama by the Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Özpetek, who wrote the screenplay with Gianni Romoli. This Italian-French co-production is the first film he shot entirely in Italy and is counted as his third. It opened in Italy on 28 September 2001 and in France, as Tableau de famille, on 9 January 2002. Released on DVD in the United States as His Secret Life, it grossed $215,449 there and was also popular in Europe.

The story concerns Antonia (Margherita Buy), who leads a modest life near Rome with her husband Massimo, until his sudden death in a traffic accident upends it. Sorting his belongings from the office, she finds a mysterious painting and, suspecting he cheated on her, begins investigating. What she finds is far stranger than she expected: Massimo had a second life with a man that lasted years. The cast also includes Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yılmaz, Gabriel Garko, Erika Blanc, Filippo Nigro, Rosaria De Cicco, Carmine Recano and Koray Candemir.

Medusa Film and R&C Produzioni are among the producers. The film won numerous festival awards for its subject and its treatment of HIV/AIDS. In 2022 Özpetek adapted it into an eight-episode Disney+ series of the same name.