IFF: A World Apart

Synopsis

A WORLD APART follows a primary school teacher who struggles to adapt to small-town life after he relocates to a remote mountain village.

After 40 years in the metropolitan jungle of Rome, primary school teacher Michele Cortese (Antonio Albanese) moves to an idyllic village in the heart of the Abruzzo National Park, population 1800, to teach at a tiny school. He quickly has trouble adjusting to the local culture to entertaining results but gradually adapts, thanks to the school’s friendly vice-principal Agnese (Virginia Raffaele) and its spirited pupils.

However, just as all seems well, unwelcome news arrives: the school has failed to meet its student enrolment quota for the next year and will be forced to close. So begins a race against time to save it whatever it takes…