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The Teacher
Directed by
Farah Nabulsi
NR
2023
1h 58m
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A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new relationship with a volunteer worker.
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Cast of The Teacher
Saleh Bakri
Basem El-Saleh
Imogen Poots
Lisa
Muhammad Abed Elrahman
Adam
Stanley Townsend
Simon Cohen
Paul Herzberg
Director Lieberman
Mahmood Bakri
Yacoub
Andrea Irvine
Rachel Cohen
Asmaa Azaizeh
Salwa
Ruba Bilal
Huda
Muayyad Abd Elsamad
Abu Tarek
Abd Al Naser Al Sadi
Yusef
Nabil Al Raee
Man at Night
Shams Azzam
Secret Service #1
Julia Hamdan
Hana
Hanna Ayoub
House Demolition Soldier
Nael Kanj
The Settler
Einat Weitzman
Orit
Jareer Qanadeelo
Abu Sameer
Doraid Liddawi
Military Judge
Ous Khader
Nader
Asmahan Abed Elhadi
Military Lawyer
Donna Hawa
Female Soldier
Khitam Idlbi
Court Judge
Diaa Mograby
Nathaniel
Ameer Klawe
Commando Soldier #1
Mhamd Balawni
Commando Soldier #2
Yasmin Hisham Suleiman
Bike Girl
Taher Kosa
Ibraheem
Firas Farrah
Cellmate #1
Rita Taha
Staff Member
Nicola Zreineh
Head Teacher
Waseem Khair
Football Commentator Audio
Farah Nabulsi
Director / Writer / Producer
Ossama Bawardi
Producer
Sawsan Asfari
Producer
The Teacher Ratings & Reviews
Kevin Ward
July 1, 2025
The Teacher has a little bit of an identity crisis at times, but its strongest moment comes near the end with the gut-punch confrontation: "To your people, your son is worth 1,000 of mine." That line alone cuts deeper than any of the film’s dramatic beats. Compelling narrative concerned with the Israeli occupation of even if it leans into some heavy-handed dramatic beats. The unnecessary romance with Imogen Poots’ feels very out of place and pulls focus from the bigger themes.
Los Angeles Times
Carlos Aguilar
That spirit-crushing feeling of powerlessness is what director Nabulsi aims to fend off, admittedly through not always effective narrative means, but with emotional sincerity nonetheless.
Next Best Picture
Sara Clements
It's incredibly heavy. At times, nearly unbearable in its realism. But it's also beautiful, brave, and vital.
Boston Movie News
James Verniere
Powerful, a kind of fiction version of 2024 Academy Award winning documentary "No Other Land." Saleh Baki is superb.
NPR
Bob Mondello
Writer-director Farah Nabulsi ratchets up the tension, as well as the pain... She's given events a neatness and symmetry that seems unlikely in real life, but there's truth in the emotional trauma.
Spectrum Culture
Daniel Pemberton
While the film feels its length and some plot threads and characters are underwritten, Nabulsi nonetheless delivers with a work that straddles fiction and reality, capturing and affirming Palestinian life under occupation in the West Bank.
The Atlantic
Hannah Giorgis
The Teacher, in its best stretches, captures the intimate horrors of life under harrowing circumstances -- and the lifesaving power of the relationships that people still manage to forge and nurture.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
A Teacher is not the most finely crafted film, but it is a cri de cœur.
Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)
Marya E. Gates
The narrative has some structural issues, the lead performance from Saleh Bakri is sublime, as always.
Collider
Elisa Guimarães
The Teacher is not what it sets out to be. It is too melodramatic, too bloated, and too messy to work. Still, we should be glad that this movie is getting a release.
RogerEbert.com
Peyton Robinson
Nabulsi's film touches the heart but loses grip on the mind as it journeys to juggle more subplots than its hands can handle.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
While the threads all compel individually, the climax, in which Basem declares his determination to redress a past failure, is decidedly trite.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
The Teacher presents a fascinating character study, as well as an engaging moral dilemma about and interrogation of activism.
FandomWire
Sean Boelman
One of the most adroitly written and directed political dramas in recent memory, The Teacher struggles to balance its narrative threads but never loses sight of the intention of the story being told and images being constructed.
World Socialist Web Site
Joanne Laurier
The immense moral and political pressures brought to bear on the Palestinian population ... bring to mind similar strains and terrors for people in those portions of Europe and elsewhere under Nazi rule during World War II.
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
...its ripple effects are drawn clearly to reverberate in an entirely different way well after the film ends, passing on a bit of hope instead of fear...
TheWrap
Steve Pond
Ground zero here - for the characters, for the nations, for the filmmaker - is futility. Nabulsi drops us on that ground and doesn't let us pretend it's anything else.
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
Even if a bit too much of the western view on the events, "The Teacher" emerges as a beautiful, meaningful film that shows quite accurately how the circle of violence is created and keeps erupting in the area.
The Film Stage
Jared Mobarak
There's no vagueness here to the fact that a clandestine war is being waged by rebels as opposed to terrorists. That's not to say it condones their actions either. It merely contextualizes them.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Uneven but often riveting.
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