My Class

My Class (2014)

DramaDocumentary

The ostensibly simple story of a sympathetic veteran teacher giving Italian lessons to a weekly class of diverse immigrants is given infinitely more depth and complexity by the manner in which director Daniele Gaglianone renders his story. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, truth and artifice, and between documentary and drama, Gaglianone has created a film within a film. You see the apparent artifice of Gaglianone’s crew using professionals, including the noted film actor Valerio Mastandrea as the teacher, interlinked with ‘real’ immigrant protagonists, studying the language to improve their chances of employment and of gaining a permanent residence permit. Thus in the course of the lessons there is simultaneously the painful and upsetting relation of the students’ personal stories but also humour, as they interact and share their humanity, bridging cultural differences, united in their striving to make a better life for themselves. (Source: LFF programme)

Director: Daniele Gaglianone
Writers: Daniele Gaglianone, Gino Clemente, Claudia Russo.

Casts

	Valerio Mastandrea as Valerio / Professor Attanasio
	Bassirou Ballde as Pupil (Guinea)
	Mamon Bhuiyan as Pupil (Bangladesh)
	Gregorio Cabral as Pupil (Philippines)
	Jessica Canahuire Laura as Pupil (Peru)
	Metin Çelik as Pupil (Turkey)
	Pedro Savio De Andrade as Pupil (Brazil)
	Benabdallah Oufa as Pupil (Tunisi)
	Shadi Ramadan as Pupil (Egypt)
	Easther Sam as Pupil (Nigeria)
	Lyudmyla Temchenko as Pupil (Ukraine)
	Moussa Touré as Pupil (Senegal)
	Issa Tunkara as Pupil (Ivory Coast)
	Mahbobeh Vatankhah as Pupil (Iran)

Crew