NY Premiere

Part of the Brooklyn Film Festival

A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British volunteer worker and his emotional support for one of his students.

Directed by Farah Nabulsi

Filmmaker's note:
Although I was born, raised, and educated in the UK, in London, my blood, my heritage is very much Palestinian, and my first-hand experiences traveling to occupied and colonised Palestine in recent years really opened my eyes to the injustice and discrimination that's taking place there and just how systematic andinstitutionalised it is.

But I wanted to get specific and tell a more personal story about someone living that reality, and explore the real-life conditions, experiences, and human emotions that drive a person to make certain choices and take certain actions; as is the case for our protagonist, Basem and his student Adam, and indeed for Simon, our Jewish American father in the film as well, whose son is missing.

My intention with THE TEACHER is to take audiences on an intense, emotional journey into those lives and experiences, and hope I leave them contemplating the choices and decisions the characters make and the cruel reality in which they are forced to make them.