Landing in our inbox is THE TEACHER trailer, the feature debut of Palestinian British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi who endeavours to take audiences on an intense, emotional journey into the lives and experiences of those living in occupied and colonised Palestine, and lift the curtain on the hardships and difficult choices they have to make.
The feature follows a Palestinian school teacher (Saleh Bakri) who struggles to reconcile his life threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students (Muhammad Abed) and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a volunteer worker (Imogen Poots).
The film premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and has recently received the Best International Film Award at Galway Film Fleadh 2024. It won Audience Awards at the 67th San Francisco International Film Festival 2024, the 38th Washington DC International Film Festival 2024, and Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival 2024, among over a dozen additional awards.
The film stars Saleh Bakri (“The Blue kaftan”, “The Present”, “Wajib” and “The Band’s Visit”), Imogen Poots (“Vivarium”, “Green Room”, “28 Weeks Later” and “Baltimore”) Muhammad Abed El Rahman, Stanley Townsend, Paul Herzberg, Mahmoud Bakri and Andrea Irvine. Imogen Poots picks eclectic projects from dark thrillers like ‘Green Room’ (disc review HERE) to mind benders like ‘Vivarium’ (reviewed HERE) and this looks like a moving human drama in much the same was as The Father which she had a small role in with Anthony Hopkins winning an Oscar for this role and a devastating final scene
THE TEACHER will be in UK & Ireland cinemas from Friday 27th September 2024
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Here’s The Teacher trailer…..
