Classmates (2026)
An English teacher at technical school in the outskirts of Rome knows that her twenty-four eighteen-year-old students do not consider her a human being, speak ill of her, are ready to contest her and feel a morbid curiosity towards her private life. Still, she tries to relate to them and the result of this effort is "a great love story". Cenciarelli describes the lessons (strictly in English, despite the students' protestations), the fights in and out of class, the students' tricks, their need to confront each other, their desire to show themselves superior, their weaknesses and their loneliness. As the seasons go by, the relationship between teacher and students becomes more complicated and deepens, alternating moments of great enthusiasm and great disappointment, until the baccalaureate exam, about which she cares more than they do.
Director:
Umberto Riccioni Carteni
Writers:
Gaja Cenciarelli, Herbert Simone Paragnani.
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Anna Ferzetti as Professoressa |
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Fabio Bizzarro as Francesco |
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Zoe Massenti as |
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Sara Silvestro as Alessandra |
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Yothin Clavenzani as |
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Paterne Sassaroli as |
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Anita Serafini as Margherita |
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Morgan Sebastian Wahr as |
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Lorenzo Bagala as Flavietto |
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Federico Micheli as |
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Mounir Khlifi as |
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Manuela Zero as |
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Massimo Foschi as |
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Simona di Sarno as |
| Directing | Umberto Riccioni Carteni | Director |
| Writing | Gaja Cenciarelli | Novel |
| Writing | Gaja Cenciarelli | Screenplay |
| Writing | Herbert Simone Paragnani | Screenplay |
| Sound | Diego Buongiorno | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Vladan Radović | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Lorenzo Campera | Editor |
| Art | Alessandra Bisegna | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Aida Ghafouri | Costume Design |
| Production | Francesco Palazzi | Producer |
| Production | Umberto Riccioni Carteni | Producer |