Are You Ready to Enroll? 'Minerva Academy': The Trailer for the Latest Teen Drama From September 22 Only on Netflix

A military high school, forbidden romances, rivalries and a truth that was meant to stay hidden. The trailer for Minerva Academy, the new eight-episode teen drama coming September 22 only on Netflix, offers a look at a back-to-school experience unlike any other.

The series premiered at the 2026 Giffoni Film Festival, and was produced by Roberto Sessa for Picomedia (an Asacha Media Company group, part of Fremantle) and directed by Ivan Silvestrini. The cast includes Ciro Minopoli, Biagio Venditti, Margherita Buoncristiani, Beatrice Savignani, Simone Secce, Giulio Brizzi, Nicole Malaj and Alicia Edogamhe, alongside Massimiliano Gallo, Cristiana Capotondi, Irene Maiorino, Raiz and Michele Rosiello.

Minerva Academy is a teen drama series set in a military high school in Naples. A world that feels like it belongs to another time, where students wake up at dawn for the flag-raising ceremony, where mobile phones and civilian clothes are forbidden, and where military tactics and fencing are part of the school subjects. A place where love stories are not allowed and every mistake comes with a heavy price.

The series follows Salvo (Ciro Minopoli), a boy from a group home who joins the school to uncover the truth about what happened to his best friend; Vincenzo (Biagio Venditti), who dreams of following in his father's footsteps and pursuing a military career; and Camilla (Margherita Buoncristiani), a privileged girl from Milan whose father sends her there in the hope of changing her ways. Minerva Academy is also the story of the adults who are responsible for guiding these young people: the officers and civilian teachers who are there to educate and shape them, while facing their own doubts, weaknesses and mistakes. At the Minerva Academy military high school, students are pushed to their limits and discover unexpected things about themselves. Every young person arrives with dreams and ambitions. The school will not necessarily help them achieve them. Instead, it will help them understand whether those dreams were truly the right ones. In the end, it will help them grow up.

The cast also includes Antonio Adaggio, Carmen Annibale, Martina Attanasio, Fabio Bizzarro, Viola Brambilla, Luigi Bruno, Martina Pia Gambardella, Pietro Sparvoli and Luigi Zeno.