Classmates

Story

Synopsis

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

Herbert Simone Paragnani, Gaja Cenciarelli

Language

Italian

Country

Italy

Release date

19 February 2026

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Anna Ferzetti

  Professoressa

• 

  Fabio Bizzarro

  Francesco

• Zoe Massenti

  Sofia

• 

  Sara Silvestro

  Alessandra

• Federico Micheli

  Marco

• Morgan Sebastian Wahr

  Daniele

• Anita Serafini

  Margherita

• Paterne Sassaroli

  Faso

• Yothin Clavenzani

  Tarek

• Mounir Khlifi

  Rabhil

• Lorenzo Bagala

  Flavietto

• 

  Giovanni Bussi

  Pres. Commissione solerte