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THE TEACHER

( 2023 )
Special Presentations, Window on Palestine |
 
Palestine
,
United Kingdom
 |
 Arabic, English |
 115 min

About the film

A Palestinian school teacher (Saleh Bakri) struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students (Muhammad Abed El Rahman) and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a volunteer worker (Imogen Poots).

Director

Farah Nabulsi

Farah Nabulsi is an Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA award-winning Palestinian British filmmaker. In 2016 she started working in the film industry as a writer & producer of short fiction films. This includes Today They Took My Son, endorsed by British Director Ken Loach and screened at the United Nations. The Present, her directorial debut, which she also co-wrote and produced, premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2020 and won the Audience Award for Best Film. It went on to win over 50 International Film Festival Jury and Audience Awards, a BAFTA award, and it scored an Oscar nomination. The Teacher is Farah’s debut feature.

Producer

Sawsan Asfari, Farah Nabulsi, Ossama Bawardi

Production Company

Screenplay

Farah Nabulsi

Cinematography

Gilles Porte, AFC

Editing

Mike Pike

Sound

Ibrahim Zaher, Ben Baird, C.A.S

Cast

Saleh Bakri, Imogen Poots, Muhammad Abed El Rahman, Stanley Townsend, Paul Herzberg,  Mahmoud Bakri, Andrea Irvine

Contacts

International Sales: Goodfellas, feripret@goodfellas.film; Middle East Distributor: Front Row Filmed Entertainment, cc@ frontrowent.ae

Producer

Sawsan Asfari, Farah Nabulsi, Ossama Bawardi

Production Company

Screenplay

Farah Nabulsi

Cinematography

Gilles Porte, AFC

Editing

Mike Pike

Sound

Ibrahim Zaher, Ben Baird, C.A.S

Cast

Saleh Bakri, Imogen Poots, Muhammad Abed El Rahman, Stanley Townsend, Paul Herzberg,  Mahmoud Bakri, Andrea Irvine

Contacts

International Sales: Goodfellas, feripret@goodfellas.film; Middle East Distributor: Front Row Filmed Entertainment, cc@ frontrowent.ae

More About Film

Producer

Sawsan Asfari, Farah Nabulsi, Ossama Bawardi

Screenplay

Farah Nabulsi

Cinematography

Gilles Porte, AFC

Editing

Mike Pike

Sound

Ibrahim Zaher, Ben Baird, C.A.S

Cast

Saleh Bakri, Imogen Poots, Muhammad Abed El Rahman, Stanley Townsend, Paul Herzberg,  Mahmoud Bakri, Andrea Irvine

Contact

International Sales: Goodfellas, feripret@goodfellas.film; Middle East Distributor: Front Row Filmed Entertainment, cc@ frontrowent.ae