The Teacher

Farah Nabulsi, UK, Qatar, Palestine 2023, 118 mins

English, Arabic, English subtitles

Farah Nabulsi says:
“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 travelling 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 and institutionalised it is.

I wanted to get specific and tell a 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.”