Country: UK, Palestine, Qatar
Year: 2023
Duration: 115'
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new relationship with a volunteer worker.
Biography
film director
Farah Nabulsi
(London, England, 1978) is a Palestinian filmmaker and activist. After studying at the Francis Holland School, she earned a degree in Economics from Cass Business School in London. After working as a broker at JP Morgan, in 2013 she decided to pursue an artistic career to document the tragedy of the Palestinian people. After directing the short films Nightmare of Gaza (2018) and The Present (2020), she made her feature debut in 2023 with The Teacher.
FILMOGRAFIA
Nightmare of Gaza (2018), Al-hadiya (The Present, 2020), The Teacher (2023).
Declaration
film director
“What compelled me was the desire to tell a powerful, emotional human story; one that mattered to me personally, both as a Palestinian and as a human being witnessing profound and ongoing injustice. Of course, the sociopolitical reality is present and integral to the film—it’s not something I shy away from—and that reality, in many ways, becomes a kind of character in the film, shaping the world my other characters live in and the choices available to them.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Farah Nabulsi. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gilles Porte. FILM EDITING: Mike Pike. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Nael Kanj. MUSIC: Alex Baranowski. CAST: Saleh Bakri, Imogen Poots, Muhammad Abed Elrahman, Stanley Townsend, Andrea Irvine. PRODUCTION: Sawsan Asfari, Ossama Bawardi, Farah Nabulsi for Cocoon Films, Native Liberty, Philistine Films.
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