Project Detail

The Teacher

Name: The Teacher
Director: Farah Nabulsi
Genre: Woman Director, Drama
Released: 2023
Duration: 115 min

Synopsis

A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker Lisa, and his emotional support for one of his students Adam.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

Details

Year: 2023
Type of project: Features
Running time: 115 min
Director: Farah Nabulsi 1st Feature
Producer: Sawsan Asfari, Ossama Bawardi, Farah Nabulsi
Co-Producer: Luke Healy
Editor: Mike Pike
Screenwriter: Farah Nabulsi
Director of Photography: Gilles Porte
Production Designer: Nael Kanj
Sound: Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer: Ben Baird
Composer: Alex Baranowski
Principal cast: Saleh Bakri, Imogen Poots, Muhammad Abed El Rahman, Stanley Townsend, Andrea Irvine, Paul Herzberg

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Palestine, Qatar co-production

A Cocoon Films (UK, AU), Native Liberty (UK), Philistine Films (PS) production supported by BFI

Cocoon Films

96 Park Lane
London
W1K 7TF

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Sales Company

Goodfellas (fka Wild Bunch International)

Flavien Eripret

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