Un anno di scuola
- Directed by
- Laura Samani
- Starring
- Stella Wendick, Giacomo Covi, Pietro Giustolisi, Samuel Volturno
- Duration
- 102 min.
- Year
- 2025
- Language
- Italian
An Italian coming-of-age story about the confident Swedish Fredrika, who charts her own path in a school class full of boys in the coastal city of Trieste.
Un anno di scuola at the Cineville Preview Days
Laura Samani’s second feature film had its world premiere at the recent Venice Film Festival, where it scooped the award for Best Actor. For Samani, this is a deeply personal project: she transplanted a classic novel by Trieste author Giani Stuparich to her own youth in 2007. The unique soundtrack is packed with nostalgic tracks from that era. In Samani’s coming-of-age tale, a Swedish girl moves to Italy and ends up in an all-boys school class. Surrounded by testosterone, she navigates her way past new friends, enemies, and smouldering first loves.
