‘The Teacher’ Review: A Powerful but Imbalanced West Bank Drama

Review: Leila and the Wolves - Chicago Reader

This restoration of the 1984 film Leila and the Wolves is a compelling and all too timely history of Palestinian and Lebanese women.

When Young People Stop Imagining a Future

At its best, The Teacher captures the intimate horrors of life under harrowing circumstances.

“The Teacher”: Director Farah Nabulsi and Actor Saleh Bakri on New Film Based in Occupied West Bank

A feature film about life in the occupied West Bank, The Teacher, opens in New York tonight and in theaters across the U.S. next week. The film, which is inspired by true events, centers a Palestinian schoolteacher who struggles to reconcile his commitment to political resistance with supporting his student. “It’s a fiction narrative, this film, but it is deeply, deeply rooted in reality,” says Farah Nabulsi, director of The Teacher, which is par

‘The Teacher’ Review: A Powerful but Imbalanced West Bank Drama

With her feature debut “The Teacher,” Palestinian British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi attempts to shine a light on the absurd indignities of living under military occupation. Set in the West Bank — where it was also filmed, over a three-month period — the 2023 Toronto Film Festival selection follows a troubled Palestinian schoolteacher wrestling with his political allegiances at a particularly fraught time for a student he takes under his wing. Na…

Israeli army demolishes 5 more Palestinian homes in occupied West Bank

Israeli army issues demolition orders for 20 other homes in al-Rihiya town, south of Hebron, witnesses say - Anadolu Ajansı

“I See Palestine as the Wound That the Whole World is Bleeding Out of Right Now”: Director Farah Nabulsi on The Teacher

“To your people, your son is worth 1,000 of mine.” This striking line from Oscar-nominated director Farah Nabulsi’s feature debut The Teacher draws inspiration from the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, in which one Israeli soldier was released in exchange for 1,027 prisoners, the majority of whom were Palestinians and Arab-Israelis. Nabulsi’s tense drama follows a Palestinian schoolteacher named Basem (Saleh Bakri) who forms a bond with one …