From the River to the Screen: Inside ‘The Teacher’ w/ Palestinian Director Farah Nabulsi

Rania Khalek Dispatches

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Farah Nabulsi joins Rania Khalek on Dispatches to talk about her powerful new film The Teacher, an emotional and political drama set in the occupied West Bank.

Inspired by true events, The Teacher follows a Palestinian schoolteacher as he confronts personal trauma, settler violence, and the capture of an Israeli soldier by the resistance, forcing impossible moral decisions that reflect the brutal reality of life under military occupation.

The film captures the full spectrum of colonial violence, from land theft and demolitions to military raids and daily humiliation, and it does so without reducing Palestinians to one dimensional victims or symbols. It’s raw, grounded, and quietly revolutionary.

🎬 The Teacher premieres in New York City on April 11 and will be released nationwide on April 18 by Watermelon Pictures

🎞️ Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0rGiVQwnSY

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