My Order

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."

"The Teacher premiered just a few weeks before the attacks and aftermath of Octobr 7th, which lend an almost unbearable topicality to this human drama about genocide and hostage taking." Hugh Barnes, theartsdesk