SILENZIO IN CLASSE
By Francesco Valda

GENRE: Action, Drama

LOGLINE: A 15-year-old boy who is bullied by his classmates because he has dyslexia tries to get help, but no one helps him. So one day he takes revenge by killing three of his classmates, but the police discover him and put him in prison. What they didn't know was that his sister had hidden the knife the boy had made. In the end, the sister helps the police, and the brother kills her, and then ends up in a psychiatric ward. His last line is: "Finally, there's silence." A film like this only makes sense if it openly condemns violence and shows how destructive it can be to ignore the pain of young people. It shouldn't be a film that "makes you root" for revenge, because these things really happen—not like that, but almost—but one that leaves the viewer with a lump in their throat and a powerful message: let's listen before it's too late. I'm Italian.