San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: "A World Apart" (Un Mondo a Parte), 2024 Thursday December 11, 7 p.m. La Paloma Theatre For elementary school teacher Michele Cortese, it seems like a new life is opening up. After 40 years of teaching in the Roman jungle, he manages to get assigned to a school in the heart of the Abruzzo National Park. When he arrives in his city clothes with his city ways, nobody in town expects him to last. With the help of the vice principal Agnese and the children, he overcomes his metropolitan inadequacy and becomes one of them. However, just when everything seems to be going well, the news arrives that the school will close in June due to lack of enrollments. Thus begins a race against time to prevent its closure by any means necessary… In Italian with English subtitles. San Diego Italian Film Festival on Facebook / Instagram