Feature Film competition
The Teacher
United Kingdom, Palestine, Qatar | 118 min | 2023
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.
Director:
Farah Nabulsi
Screenplay:
Farah Nabulsi
Cinematography:
Gilles Porte
cast:
Saleh Bakri,
Imogen Poots,
Muhammad Abed El Rahman
production:
Cocoon Films, Native Liberty, Philistine Films
Director:
FARAH NABULSI
Farah Nabulsi is an Oscar-nominated and BAFTA award-winning Palestinian British filmmaker, born, raised and educated in the UK. She left the corporate world in 2016 to start working in the film industry as a writer & producer of short fiction films, exploring topics that matter to her. This includes Today They Took My Son, endorsed by renowned British Director Ken Loach, screened at the United Nations