Chicago Palestine Film Festival - The Teacher

2023, dir. Farah Nabulsi
United Kingdom, Palestine, Qatar; 118 min.
In Arabic with English subtitles

A Palestinian school teacher (Saleh Bakri) struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students (Muhammad Abed El Rahman) and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a volunteer worker (Imogen Poots).

Special Guest, director Farah Nabulsi, will be joining us for a Q&A.