Writer-director Farah Nabulsi, an Oscar nominee for an earlier short, makes her feature debut with a sincere drama about the ...

Nabulsi’s film touches the heart but loses grip on the mind as it journeys to juggle more subplots than its hands can handle.

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 ...

FARAH NABULSI: Yeah, I wrote the film about five years ago. We shot it in militarily occupied, colonized Palestine approximately two-and-a-half years ago. And it premiered September 2023 ...

While it's important to have stories of Palestine, Farah Nabulsi's debut film, The Teacher, is too bloated to properly work.

Basem (Saleh Bakri) is a dedicated educator with a soft spot for two brothers from his village, Yacoub (Mahmoud Bakri) and Adam (Muhammad Abed Elrahaman). When a new counselor, Lisa (Imogen Poots), ...

A legal procedural, a family tragedy, a romance and a kidnapping plot are a lot to hang on one character in this debut film ...

With her feature debut “The Teacher,” Palestinian British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi attempts to shine a light on the absurd ...

On top of all this, Nabulsi’s film spends considerable time fleshing out why school feels like an afterthought for some of ...

The Teacher struggles to balance its narrative threads but never loses sight of the intention of the story being told and images being constructed.

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 ...

Not reviewed at press time. In this drama from British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi, the teacher at a school in the West Bank crosses paths with a student activist, a British social worker ...