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"Cinema and school, the comedy is a winner" - QUOTIDIANO NAZIONALE
PLOT:	After forty years of teaching in the urban jungle of Rome, primary schoolteacher Michele Cortese moves to an idyllic village in the heart of the Abruzzo National Park to teach at a small school with only a handful of students aged seven to ten. He struggles to overcome the challenges of small-town life but finds a friendly face in vice-principal Agnese and gradually adapts, thanks to her and their spirited pupils. However, when all seems well, unwelcome news arrives: the school has failed to meet its enrollment quota for the next year and will be forced to close. Thus begins a race against time to save the school…whatever it takes!
CAST:	Antonio Albanese, Virginia Raffaele, Sergio Saltarelli, Alessandra Barbonetti, Solidea Pistilli, Donatella La Cesa, Bianca Maria Macro, Corrado Oddi, Gianmarco Borsa, Guglielmo Casale, Enzo De Sanctis, Andrea Decina Di Pirro, Sergio Meogrozzi
YEAR:	2024
LENGTH:	112 min.
GENRE:	Comedy
AWARDS:	• Best Comedy, Best Actress in a Comedy (Virginia Raffaele): Nastro d'argento
RATING:	USA: no rating

TIMES:	Portland: April 6, 5:00 p.m.
	Indianapolis: April 11, 6:30 p.m.
	Memphis: April 12, 7:00 p.m.
	Phoenix: April 13, 1:00 p.m.
	Milwaukee: April 13, 5:00 p.m.
	Cleveland: April 14, 9:00 p.m.
	Detroit: April 19, 7:30 p.m.
	St. Louis: April 19, 7:30 p.m.


	Please note, while the trailer may not include subtitles, the film will be screened with English subtitless.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
Riccardo Milani, born in Rome in 1958, began as an assistant director to Nanni Moretti, Mario Monticelli and Daniele Luchetti. In 1997, he made his directorial debut with the film Auguri professore, for which he was nominated Best New Director; he won the Nastro d’argento Best Comedy awards for Come un gatto in tangenziale and its sequel Come un gatto in tangenziale-Ritorno a Coccia di Morto, and Corro da te. Regarding his film, Milani said: “The issue of depopulation not only concerns Abruzzo, but unites the country from North to South. Not only a cultural problem, but a social and geographical one. The demographic decline is affecting the whole of Italy and there are many small businesses that are able to move forward thanks to the presence of a workforce arriving from outside who over time has integrated, started a family, also creating generational turnover."

DISTRIBUTOR: Distrib Film, 32 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY