Archive: Keswick Film Festival

Saturday 8th March 6:30 PM - Alhambra

The Teacher

Director: Farah Nabulsi Country: Palestine
Cert: 12A Year: 2023 Length: 115 mins

2025 Festival

Audience Reaction

Score: 86.68% Attendance: 134

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Set in the West Bank, Basem, a Palestinian schoolteacher, struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker, Lisa (Imogen Poots) and his emotional support for one of his students. The British-Palestinian director Nabulsi has stated that she "needed to make this film to cope with the injustice I've witnessed"

Thanks to Martin Myers

Critics

The Teacher premiered ... just a few weeks before the attacks and aftermath of 7th October which lend an almost unbearable topicality to this human drama about genocide and hostage-taking

Hugh Barnes, theartsdesk

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.

Grace Dodd, Little White Lies