My Class

Overview

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)

Directed by Daniele Gaglianone

Top cast

Valerio Mastandrea

Valerio / Professor Attanasio

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Bassirou Ballde

Pupil (Guinea)

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Mamon Bhuiyan

Pupil (Bangladesh)

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Gregorio Cabral

Pupil (Philippines)

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Jessica Canahuire Laura

Pupil (Peru)

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Metin Çelik

Pupil (Turkey)

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Pedro Savio De Andrade

Pupil (Brazil)

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Benabdallah Oufa

Pupil (Tunisi)

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Shadi Ramadan

Pupil (Egypt)

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Easther Sam

Pupil (Nigeria)

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Lyudmyla Temchenko

Pupil (Ukraine)

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Moussa Touré

Pupil (Senegal)

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Issa Tunkara

Pupil (Ivory Coast)

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Mahbobeh Vatankhah

Pupil (Iran)

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