2023
year
115
Minutes
SCHEDULE
02.03.2024
/ 05:15 PM/
Audi 10 PVR INOX ORION MALL
05.03.2024
/ 07:00 PM/
Audi 5 PVR INOX ORION MALL
Synopsis
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British volunteer worker.
Producer(s) or Production Company: Sawsan Asfari, Farah Nabulsi, Ossama Bawardi
Screenplay: Farah Nabulsi
Director of Photography: Gilles Porte
Editor: Mike Pike
Music: Alex Baranowski
Sound: Ibrahim Zaher
Cast: Saleh Bakri, Imogen Poots, Muhammad Abed El Rahman
Awards - Winner: Red Sea IFF (Jury Prize - Best Actor)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Toronto IFF - World Premiere, El Gouna FF - Official Selection, Bosphorus - FF Official Selection
Director's Biography
FARAH NABULSI
Farah Nabulsis is a British filmmaker. THE PRESENT, her directorial debut, which she also co-wrote and produced, premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand ISFF in 2020. She won the coveted Audience Award for Best Film. It went on to win over 50 International Film Festival Jury and Audience Awards, a BAFTA award, and an Oscar nomination. Nabulsi has been invited to serve as a jury member at numerous festivals and as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. THE TEACHER is Farah’s directorial debut fiction feature-length film.
- Asian Cinema Competition
- Indian Cinema Competition
- Kannada Cinema Competition
- Contemporary World Cinema
- Country Focus - Germany
- Critics Week
- Bio-Pics
- Kannada Cinema of Popular Entertainment
- Women Power in Filmmaking
- Unsung Incredible India - Films from little known languages
- Retrospective
- Centenary Tributes
- Homages & Remembrances
- Thematic Films on Human Resilience, Rights and Values
- 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES
- 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
- AMAL
- BANEL & ADAMA
- CITY OF WIND
- DELEGATION
- DESERTS
- DORMITORY
- ENDLESS BORDERS
- EXODUS
- FALLEN LEAVES
- FOUR DAUGHTERS
- FREMONT
- GOODBYE JULIA
- HEROIC
- HESITATION WOUND
- INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL
- JE’VIDA
- KIDNAPPED
- ME CAPTAIN
- OMEN
- SIX FEET OVER
- SLOW
- THE BURITI FLOWER
- THE DELINQUENTS
- THE MONK AND THE GUN
- THE OLD OAK
- THE RYE HORN
- THE TEACHER
- TOLL
- FOUR LITTLE ADULTS
- PARADISE IS BURNING
- DAAAAAALI!
- BLAGA’S LESSONS
- SWEET DREAMS
- MATRIA
- LET ME GO
- CLOSE YOUR EYES
- THE LAND WHERE WINDS STOOD STILL
- BONJOUR SWITZERLAND
- IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE
- ALL EARS
- A WHOLE LIFE
- WITHOUT AIR
- BROTHERS
- THE TASTE OF THINGS
- RADICAL
- ALL THE SILENCE
- YANNICK
- TEMPORARIES
- PARADISE
- ABOUT DRY GRASSES
- HOFFMAN'S FAIRY TALES
- DAMAGE
- EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY
- EMPTY NETS
- THE MONKEY HOUSE
- SHIVAMMA