The Teacher

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The Teacher

In Theaters Fri Apr 11

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In this gripping drama by Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning director Farah Nabulsi (The Present), Palestinian schoolteacher Basem (Saleh Bakri) faces personal turmoil after a tragic incident involving his son. He finds solace in a deep bond with his student Adam and British social worker Lisa (Imogen Poots). Meanwhile, an American attorney and his wife push for the return of their son, an Israeli soldier held by a Palestinian resistance group, leading to tensions over a potential prisoner exchange. The intertwining stories highlight themes of empathy and conflict, culminating in a powerful narrative marked by unexpected twists.

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Farah Nabulsi

Director

Saleh Bakri

Basem El Saleh

Imogen Poots

Lisa

Muhammad Abed Elrahman

Adam

Stanley Townsend

Simon Cohen

Andrea Irvine

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Grace Dodd

Little White Lies

Gripping and full of tension, The Teacher not only makes for a wonderful cinematic experience, but poses some all-important questions the wider world has seemingly avoided answering for too long.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 27, 2024

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Perhaps the drama and its issues are a little small screen... But Nabulsi hits the dramatic beats with confidence and Bakri has genuine distinction.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 26, 2024

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Tim Grierson

Screen International

A passionate but uneven debut...

Dec 19, 2023

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Sean Boelman

FandomWire

One of the most adroitly written and directed political dramas in recent memory, The Teacher struggles to balance its narrative threads but never loses sight of the intention of the story being told and images being constructed.

Rated: 9/10

Apr 9, 2025

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Hugh Barnes

The Arts Desk

The political context of this first feature by British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi, who also wrote the screenplay, is so thoroughly appalling that it sometimes overshadows the TV-style melodrama onscreen.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 1, 2024

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Andrew Murray

The Upcoming

Despite some compelling central performances, the script unfortunately struggles to develop its ideas, leaving viewers with a scattershot plot that verges on the melodramatic.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 26, 2024

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Synopsis

In this gripping drama by Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning director Farah Nabulsi (The Present), Palestinian schoolteacher Basem (Saleh Bakri) faces personal turmoil after a tragic incident involving his son. He finds solace in a deep bond with his student Adam and British social worker Lisa (Imogen Poots). Meanwhile, an American attorney and his wife push for the return of their son, an Israeli soldier held by a Palestinian resistance group, leading to tensions over a potential prisoner exchange. The intertwining stories highlight themes of empathy and conflict, culminating in a powerful narrative marked by unexpected twists.

Director: Farah Nabulsi
Producer: Sawsan Asfari, Farah Nabulsi, Ossama Bawardi
Screenwriter: Farah Nabulsi, Farah Nabulsi
Distributor: Watermelon Pictures
Production Co: Cocoon Films, Cocoonfilms
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 11, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 58m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)