All of Ferreri's narratives are determined somewhat by the personalities of his actors, and in My Asylum we are drawn, not to but by the freewheeling comedian Roberto Begnini (star of Fellini's Voices of the Moon and, recently, The Monster) and his co-stars: a classroom full of kindergarteners. (Think of Begnini as Italy's Robin Williams and you can imagine the possibilities.) Begnini plays a first-time teacher assigned to a kindergarten in the middle of a fortress-like housing project on the outskirts of Bologna. His unconventional teaching methods delight and stimulate the kids, for whom school is a sanctuary; for Roberto, too, the children in their outspoken purity offer a kind of asylum. But taking his little charges on some unlikely mental journeys and unauthorized field trips (to their fathers' factory, for one), he runs afoul of the authorities. Roberto's concern for one child who refuses to eat or talk leads to a quizzical finale: can what we learn from children, and what we give them, survive in the larger society? Repeated Thursday, January 9.