Due to high demand, we’re having an encore screening of Oscar-nominated and BAFTA award-winning Palestinian British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi’s THE TEACHER, preceded by short film HAMZA: THE GHOST CHASING ME.

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).

Preceded by the short film:

HAMZA: THE GHOST CHASING ME

2023, dir. Ward Kayyal, 18 min.

Hamza is a middle-aged man who refuses to abandon a routine he has kept since his release from Israeli jail; every day, he goes into the woods to hunt a lion that the locals don’t believe exists.